Retyping a table from a PDF into Excel is slow and error-prone — a misread digit in a financial statement is the kind of mistake that’s easy to make and annoying to catch. If the numbers already exist in the PDF, the faster path is extracting them directly into real spreadsheet cells.
Go to the PDF to Excel page and add your file, up to 25 MB. The converter reads the tables inside your PDF and rebuilds them as real rows and columns — not an image, not a text dump, but cells you can actually sort, filter, and recalculate. Download the .xlsx file and open it in Excel, Google Sheets, or any spreadsheet app.
This works most reliably on PDFs that contain genuine tabular data — invoices and receipts, bank and account statements, reports and price lists, or anything exported from accounting or spreadsheet software. Text-based PDFs, the kind where you can select and highlight the text with your cursor, convert most accurately, because the numbers already exist as real characters, not pixels. A scanned PDF is harder, since the numbers are a photograph of a table rather than real text, so recognition is less reliable; for the cleanest result, use a PDF whose text you can select. If a page has no detectable table structure, it comes through as plain rows of text instead of a structured grid — still useful, just not neatly gridded.
If your PDF is password-protected, remove the password first with Unlock PDF (you need to know it) — an encrypted file can’t be read by any converter, including this one.
Once you have your tables: compress the original PDF if you also need to keep and share it, convert other formats with PDF to Word or PDF to PowerPoint, or go the other way with Excel to PDF, which turns a spreadsheet back into a shareable PDF.
Related reading: How to Turn a PDF Bank Statement or Invoice Into a Spreadsheet and Why Do Numbers From a PDF Table Import as Text in Excel?.
Extract the tables with the free PDF to Excel tool — nothing to register for, no watermark, file discarded once you’re done.