PDF to Excel Converter

Pull the tables out of a PDF into an Excel workbook: each table becomes a sheet, and a table that runs across pages stays in one sheet.

PDF
up to 25 MB per file
Deleted after 30 minutes

What PDF to Excel does

Pull tables out of a PDF into a spreadsheet. Financial statements, invoices, price lists and published reports arrive as PDFs, and retyping them is slow and error-prone. This attempts to rebuild the rows and columns so the figures can be sorted and calculated rather than read off a page.

How it works

01
Upload the PDF
Choose one PDF file to convert.
02
Build the workbook
DocsBolt maps PDF text into an Excel sheet.
03
Sort and filter later
Download the `.xlsx` file and continue in Excel.

Formats and limits

Accepts: .pdf
Produces: Excel (.xlsx)
Files per run: One
Size limit: 25 MB per file

When you'd use it

A bank statement whose transactions must be summed and categorised
Price lists sent as PDF that need to become a comparison sheet
Survey results in a PDF appendix that you want to chart

Limitations

Only text laid out as a grid becomes a table; a table drawn as an image does not.
Merged cells are split into their first cell.

What happens to your file

Processed over an encrypted connection and deleted after 30 minutes.

Full detail in the Privacy Policy.

Questions

How accurate is table detection?

Clean, ruled tables with clear columns convert well. Tables without gridlines, or with merged and multi-line cells, are harder to reconstruct because PDF stores positioned text rather than a table structure. Always check the figures against the source.

Will a scanned PDF work?

No. A scan is an image, so there is no text to extract — character recognition would be needed first, which is a separate process.

Why are some numbers in the wrong column?

Column boundaries are inferred from spacing. Where columns sit close together or values are right-aligned inconsistently, the boundary can be misjudged. Financial tables with negative numbers in brackets are a common trouble spot.