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PDF to Excel

Reconstruct rows of selectable text into an Excel workbook.

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What this tool does

Reconstruct rows of selectable PDF text into an Excel workbook. Start organizing a text-based table or statement in a spreadsheet, then check the inferred columns and data types.

What you can open
One PDF with selectable text; scanned tables need OCR first.
What you will download
An XLSX workbook with reconstructed text rows.

How to use it

  1. Choose the PDF and the pages containing the table.
  2. Run the extraction to an Excel workbook.
  3. Review column boundaries, decimal separators, dates and numeric values before calculations.

Options explained

Pages
Select physical page positions: all, a range such as 1-3, several choices such as 1, 4, last, or the final page with last.

Know the tradeoffs

  • Columns are inferred from text positions and may not match the original table perfectly.
  • Formulas, cell formatting and original workbook relationships cannot be recovered from a PDF.

Questions about this tool

Will Excel formulas be recovered?

No. A PDF normally stores their displayed results rather than the original formulas.

Why do some columns need cleanup?

The converter infers columns from positioned text rather than a source spreadsheet grid.