PDF to CSV / Excel
Extract tables from PDFs into CSV or Excel spreadsheets. Processed on our server.
PDF to CSV / Excel
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How It Works
Upload your PDF
Drop in any PDF with tables — financial reports, data exports, or invoices.
AI extracts the tables
Our AI locates and maps every table in the document, including multi-page tables.
Download as .xlsx
Each table becomes a sheet in your Excel file — ready to filter, sort, and analyse.
When PDF to Excel Conversion Is Useful
Finance teams, analysts, and operations professionals regularly receive data in PDF format that needs to be manipulated, calculated, or filtered. Common use cases:
- Bank statements — extract transaction rows for reconciliation or budget tracking
- Financial reports — get P&L or balance sheet tables into a model
- Supplier invoices — extract line items for accounts payable processing
- Research data tables — pull datasets from academic papers or government reports
- Sales reports — export structured data from PDF dashboards
How AI Table Detection Works
Unlike older PDF-to-Excel tools that rely on simple grid-line detection, our AI understands the semantic structure of tables — even when they don't have visible borders:
- The document is parsed into text blocks with position data (x, y coordinates)
- AI clusters aligned text blocks into rows and columns based on spatial relationships
- Column headers are identified and mapped to data rows
- Multi-page tables are joined by detecting continuation rows
- Each table is output as a separate sheet in the .xlsx file
When Extraction Gets Complex
- Heavily merged cells — complex header hierarchies (multi-row headers) are detected but may need manual cleanup in Excel after extraction
- Rotated text — column headers rotated 90° are common in financial tables; accuracy depends on scan quality for rotated text in scanned PDFs
- Mixed content tables — tables that contain both numbers and lengthy text (e.g., description + price columns) extract correctly but may need column-width adjustment
- Colour-coded cells— cell background colours aren't preserved in extraction (colour is visual, not data); note any colour-based groupings before converting
Tips for Best Results
- For scanned PDFs, ensure 200 DPI or higher scan quality
- Text-based PDFs always extract more accurately than scanned documents
- If a table is in a password-protected PDF, unlock it first
- For complex financial models, cross-reference the extracted totals against the original PDF before building further calculations on them
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes — each table is detected and placed on its own sheet in the Excel output.
Yes — scanned PDFs are OCR'd first. Best results with 200 DPI or higher scans.
No — extracted values are static numbers and text, not formulas. You can add your own formulas after extraction.
Multi-page tables are detected and merged into a single continuous table in the output.
Charts are not extracted — only tabular data. Use our Extract Data tool for more export options.