PDF to Excel

Converting a PDF to Excel extracts tabular data into a spreadsheet format you can sort, filter, analyze, and chart. This saves hours of manual retyping when you have financial data, invoices, research results, or reports trapped in PDF format. PDFly detects table structures in your PDF — column headers, rows, and cell boundaries — and outputs the data into a properly formatted XLSX file. The conversion runs entirely in your browser.

Upload your PDF with tables, and the tool identifies and extracts the tabular content automatically. Well-structured tables with clear borders, consistent column widths, and standard formatting convert most accurately. Multi-page tables are extracted across all pages sequentially, preserving the row order and column alignment. The tool handles documents with multiple tables on different pages.

This is useful for financial reports, invoices, data exports, survey results, and research data that are distributed as PDFs but need to be analyzed in spreadsheets. If your PDF contains mostly text rather than tables, the Extract Text tool may be more appropriate and faster. For very complex tables with merged cells, heavily nested data, or irregular formatting, you may need to do some manual cleanup in Excel after conversion — the tool handles simple to moderately complex tables well. Always review the output to confirm data accuracy.