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
- Open PDF to Excel and drop your PDF onto the drop zone (or click it to pick a file).
- 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.
- 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.
- When you see "Converted to Excel. Your .xlsx file is ready", click Download Excel (.xlsx).
- To process another document, click Convert another.
What ends up in the spreadsheet
| In the PDF | In the .xlsx |
|---|---|
| Each page with any text | Its own worksheet, named "Page 1", "Page 2", … (a fully blank page is skipped) |
| Bordered tables | Reconstructed grids, including merged (spanning) cells, with a bold header row and cell borders |
| Text outside tables | Rows 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 addresses | Clickable 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.
Related
- PDF to Excel troubleshooting — scanned files, passwords, numbers stuck as text
- How to convert a PDF to Word — editable document instead of a spreadsheet
- How to OCR a scanned PDF — full OCR tool with a language picker
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