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How to convert a PDF to Excel (.xlsx) in your browser

Pull a PDF's tables into an Excel spreadsheet with real typed cells for numbers, dates and currency — the conversion runs entirely in your browser, so the file is never uploaded.

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Turn a PDF's tables into an Excel workbook with cells you can sort, total and filter. The whole conversion — reading the PDF, detecting tables, building the .xlsx — happens in your browser. Unlike most online converters, your file is never uploaded to a server.

Before you start

  • The converter reads the PDF's text layer. A scanned or photographed PDF has no text layer — the tool detects this and offers a built-in OCR fallback (see Steps).
  • A password-protected PDF can't be read. Remove the password first with Unlock, then convert.
  • This tool captures tabular data, not visual layout. Pages that are mostly prose or images won't look like the original — for an editable document, use PDF to Word instead.
  • PDF to Excel is free to use, with no account and no watermark.

Steps

  1. Open PDF to Excel and drop your PDF onto the drop zone (or click it to pick a file).
  2. Click Convert to Excel. The button shows Converting… while it works; everything runs locally, so speed depends on your device and the document's length.
  3. If the PDF turns out to be scanned, you'll see a notice that it has no text layer, with an OCR & convert to Excel button. Click it to recognize the text on-device (a per-page progress bar appears, and you can Cancel at any time), then the conversion continues automatically. The built-in OCR pass reads English; for other languages, run the full OCR tool first using its language picker, then convert the searchable PDF it produces.
  4. When you see "Converted to Excel. Your .xlsx file is ready", click Download Excel (.xlsx).
  5. To process another document, click Convert another.

What ends up in the spreadsheet

In the PDFIn the .xlsx
Each page with any textIts own worksheet, named "Page 1", "Page 2", … (a fully blank page is skipped)
Bordered tablesReconstructed grids, including merged (spanning) cells, with a bold header row and cell borders
Text outside tablesRows below the table blocks, split into columns by horizontal position
Numbers, percents, currency (e.g. 1,234.56, 12.3%, $99, (1,200) accounting negatives)Real numeric cells with matching formats, so totals and sorting work
Common dates (2026-06-05, 6/5/2026, Jan 5 2026, 5 Jan 2026)Real date cells (US month/day order; a year is required)
Bare URLs and email addressesClickable hyperlinks

The typing is deliberately conservative: values that look like IDs — leading-zero codes such as zip codes, or very long digit runs like phone and account numbers — stay as text so nothing is silently corrupted.

Result

You get a standard .xlsx workbook (named after your PDF) that opens in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers or LibreOffice, with one sheet per page of text, auto-sized columns, and typed cells you can compute on. Your PDF never left your device at any point — you can watch the network tab in DevTools to confirm.

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