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Convert PDF to Excel

Extract tables from PDFs into clean, editable Excel sheets in seconds.

Convert PDF to Excel

Extract tables from PDFs into clean, editable Excel sheets in seconds.

Why convert PDF to Excel with PDFWix?

• Real cells, not text dumps: Numbers land in number-formatted cells you can sum and chart, instead of one giant text blob you'd have to manually parse.
• Multi-page tables auto-stitched: A 30-page bank statement comes out as one continuous sheet, not 30 disconnected fragments — saving hours of copy-paste.
• Multiple tables per page handled: If a page has more than one table, each goes onto its own sheet so they don't bleed into each other.
• Smart column detection: Bordered tables extract near-perfectly. Borderless tables work too, using whitespace and alignment cues to infer columns.
• Round-trip friendly: Edit the data in Excel, then [Excel to PDF](/excel-to-pdf) afterwards if you need a polished PDF report back out.
• Free, no signup, no watermark: Extract data from as many PDFs as you need without paying, registering, or worrying about branding on the output.

Common uses for PDF to Excel

• Pulling transactions out of a bank-statement PDF for expense tracking
• Extracting line items from supplier invoices into an accounts-payable sheet
• Loading a published research dataset into Excel for re-analysis
• Importing a competitor's pricing PDF into a comparison spreadsheet
• Turning a property tax report into a workable budget sheet
• Migrating legacy PDF reports into a modern data warehouse pipeline

Tips for converting PDF to Excel

1. Open the PDF to Excel tool — When the tool launches, you'll click "Select PDF file" or drag a PDF containing tables into the upload box.
2. Pick pages and table options — Choose all pages or a range. Decide whether multiple tables on a page should be combined into one sheet or split into separate sheets.
3. Click "Convert to Excel" — Tables will be detected and extracted into proper rows and columns of an editable Excel workbook.
4. Download your .xlsx — Open the workbook in Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers and start working with the data.

Frequently asked questions

Is PDF to Excel available now?

Not yet — it's on our launch list and arriving soon. Join the waitlist on the page to be notified the moment it's live. As a free workaround today, copy-pasting a small table from your PDF reader into Excel often works for one-off jobs.

How accurate is the table extraction?

Tables with visible borders extract near-perfectly. Borderless tables that use whitespace alignment work well in most cases. Always do a quick sanity check on totals after extraction — number/text confusion (e.g. comma vs. period as decimal separator) is the most common gotcha.

Can I extract data from a scanned PDF?

Scanned-only tables need OCR first — image-based pages don't contain selectable text to extract. When the tool launches, an OCR-first pass will be offered automatically for image-only PDFs.

What happens with multi-page tables?

A table that spans many pages (like a 30-page bank statement) is automatically stitched into a single continuous sheet in the Excel workbook, with the header row repeated only once.

What about pages with multiple tables?

Each detected table goes onto its own sheet inside the workbook, so they don't bleed into each other. You can combine them in Excel afterwards if you want everything on one sheet.

Will my PDF be stored on your servers?

Where possible the conversion runs in your browser. When server processing is required for complex layouts, files travel over HTTPS and are processed in memory only — never written to permanent disk.