PDF to Excel

Pull table-like data out of a PDF into an Excel workbook. Text is grouped into rows and columns using where it sits on the page.

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Up to 30 files, 100 MB each, 200 MB per conversion. PDFParser (PHP)

    Settings

    Leave empty for every page. Ranges work too: 1-3, 5, 8-10.
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    How wide a gap starts a new column. Lower splits more eagerly; higher merges more.
    Best effort by design. A PDF has no idea what a table is — it only knows where each character sits. Columns are inferred from those positions, so clean bordered tables convert well while merged cells, wrapped text and multi-column pages need tidying afterwards. Adjust Column sensitivity if the split looks wrong.
    PDFParser (PHP). Working from the pure-PHP parser. Install poppler-utils for noticeably better column detection.

    How to convert pdf to excel

    1. Drop your PDF

      Works on PDFs with a real text layer, not scans.

    2. Tune the columns

      Nudge column sensitivity if data lands in the wrong column.

    3. Convert

      Text is grouped into rows and columns by position.

    4. Download

      Open the .xlsx in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets.

    Questions

    My columns are merged together — what do I change?

    Lower the "Column sensitivity" slider. It sets how large a horizontal gap has to be before a new column starts, so a smaller value splits more eagerly.

    Everything landed in column A. Why?

    The PDF is probably a scan with no text layer, so there were no character positions to work from. Scans need OCR before any of this can work.

    Should I use one sheet per page?

    Yes if each page holds a separate table. If one long table runs across many pages, choose "All pages in one sheet" so the rows stay together.

    My reference codes lost their leading zeros.

    Turn off "Convert numbers and dates to real values". Everything then arrives as text, which preserves codes like 00734 exactly.

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