Why Convert PDF to Excel?
Bank statements, invoices and reports usually arrive as PDFs, which are made for reading, not for working with numbers. Copy a table out of a PDF and it often pastes as one long column of text, with amounts stuck together or in the wrong place. So you end up retyping it.
Converting the PDF to Excel puts each value in its own cell, in the right row and column. Amounts become real numbers instead of text, so you can total a column, sort by date, filter transactions and make charts straight away.
It saves the most time on anything you check or reuse: statements for your budget, invoices for your bookkeeping, price lists, sales reports and the data tables in research papers.
How to Convert PDF to Excel Online
- Choose your PDF Click Convert PDF to Excel above and pick your PDF file. It's uploaded over an encrypted connection. Files up to 50 MB are accepted.
- We rebuild the tables Our server finds the tables on each page, with or without grid lines, and puts every value in its own cell. Most files take less than a minute. Long PDFs and scanned pages can take a few minutes.
- Download your spreadsheet The Excel file (.xlsx) downloads automatically, named after your PDF. Open it in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers or LibreOffice Calc.
What People Convert from PDF to Excel
Any PDF with a table in it can be converted. These are the most common.
Bank and credit card statements
Every transaction gets its own row, with the date, description and amount in separate columns. Then you can sort, filter or total your spending by month.
Invoices and receipts
Get line items, quantities and prices into a sheet for your bookkeeping or expense claims, without retyping a single number.
Financial and sales reports
Annual reports, balance sheets and sales figures come out as columns of real numbers, ready for your own calculations and charts.
Price lists, schedules and data tables
Product catalogues, timetables, stock lists and the tables in research papers become rows you can search, update and reuse.
What Your Spreadsheet Keeps from the PDF
- Tables with grid lines and tables without them, in the same rows and columns as in the PDF
- Amounts and percentages stored as real numbers, with currency signs, thousands separators and negatives in brackets read correctly, whether the PDF writes 1,234.56 or 1.234,56
- One sheet for each page of the PDF, named Page 1, Page 2 and so on
- Titles, headings and notes around the tables, with bold text kept bold
- Scanned pages, read with text recognition (OCR) so their tables become real text and numbers too
What changes
Only text and numbers carry over. Pictures and logos are left out, and each chart is marked with a [Chart] cell, so its labels aren't mixed in with your figures. Totals come through as values rather than formulas, and a heading that spans several columns sits in one cell.
Best fit: PDFs downloaded from a bank, accounting software or a spreadsheet convert most accurately. For a PDF that's mostly paragraphs of text, PDF to Word is usually the better choice.
Tips for the Best Results
- Start from a PDF with real text. To check yours, try selecting a number in the PDF. If you can, the numbers are copied over exactly. If you can't, the page is a scan and is read with OCR, which depends on how clear the scan is.
- Convert only the pages you need. Need one table from a long report? Split the PDF first, then convert just those pages. Split your PDF
- Check the totals. Add up a column and compare it with the total in the PDF. It's the quickest way to confirm that every row came through, especially from a scanned page.
Your Files Stay Private
- Encrypted upload. Your PDF travels to our server over an encrypted HTTPS connection.
- Deleted automatically. Your PDF is deleted as soon as the conversion finishes. The Excel file is deleted when you download it, or after an hour if you don't.
- Fully automatic. The conversion runs automatically. Nobody looks at your document, and we don't keep, share or use its contents.
Questions About Converting PDF to Excel
Is the PDF to Excel converter free?
Yes. Converting PDF to Excel is free, and you don't need an account or an email address.
Will the numbers work in formulas?
Yes. Amounts and percentages are stored as real numbers, not text, so SUM, sorting and filters work straight away. Currency signs and negatives in brackets are kept as the cell's format. Dates written like 31.10.2026 or 2026-10-31 become real dates. Dates with slashes stay as text, because 03/04 is a different day in different countries.
Can I convert a scanned PDF to Excel?
Yes. Scanned pages are read with text recognition (OCR) automatically, so there's no separate step. The result depends on how clear the scan is, so check the numbers against the original or compare the totals.
Does it work with tables that have no grid lines?
Yes. Many statements and reports line up their columns with spacing alone. The converter works out where the columns are from how the text lines up, so these tables come out in rows and columns too.
Does it read European number formats?
Yes. The converter checks whether the PDF writes numbers as 1,234.56 or 1.234,56 and reads them correctly either way, so 13.382 in a German report stays thirteen thousand.
What happens to a PDF with many pages?
Each page goes on its own sheet, named Page 1, Page 2 and so on, so every table is easy to find. Text-only pages are kept as well, one line per row.
Can I open the file in Google Sheets or Numbers?
Yes. It converts PDF to XLSX, the standard Excel format, so the file opens in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Apple Numbers and LibreOffice Calc. The converter works in the browser on iPhone and Android too.
Which PDFs can I convert?
Any PDF up to 50 MB. If yours is bigger, compress it or split it first. If it asks for a password when you open it, remove the password before you convert it.
Related Tools
- PDF to Word — turn a PDF that's mostly text into a document you can edit
- OCR PDF — make a scanned PDF searchable and keep it as a PDF
- Split PDF — keep only the pages with the tables you need