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PDF to Excel

Extracts tables from a PDF and saves them as an Excel (.xlsx) spreadsheet. Each detected table is placed on its own worksheet, labeled with its table number and source page. Powered by PyMuPDF for table detection and the SheetJS library for Excel generation.

How It Works

  1. Upload a PDF by clicking the drop zone or dragging a file onto it.
  2. Click Convert to start table extraction.
  3. The tool scans every page for tables, then builds an Excel workbook.
  4. A .xlsx file downloads with one sheet per table.

Options

This tool has no configurable options. All detected tables are extracted automatically.

Output Format

  • A single filename.xlsx file.
  • One table: a single worksheet named "Table".
  • Multiple tables: worksheets named "Table 1 (Page 3)", "Table 2 (Page 5)", etc. Sheet names are truncated to 31 characters (the Excel limit).

Use Cases

  • Converting PDF financial reports into editable spreadsheets for further analysis.
  • Extracting inventory or order tables from supplier PDFs.
  • Pulling structured data from PDF forms or catalogs into Excel for sorting and filtering.
  • Archiving tabular PDF data in a format that non-technical colleagues can work with.

Tips

  • If the tool reports "No Tables Found", the PDF likely uses free-flowing text layout rather than structured tables. Try PDF to Text to grab the raw content instead.
  • For a simpler flat format, use PDF to CSV. For per-table downloads in multiple formats, use Extract Tables.
  • Review the sheet names to identify which page each table came from.