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How to Convert PDF Tables to Excel Free

Pull tables out of a text-based PDF into an .xlsx, best effort.

Best effort

The tool reads where each piece of text sits on the page and guesses rows and columns from how it lines up. One sheet is made per page.

  • Clean grid-style tables usually come out well.
  • Merged cells, wrapped cells, and tables without clear gaps may need hand fixing.
  • Scanned PDFs have no text to read. Run OCR PDF first.

How to convert

  1. Open PDF to Excel and add your PDF.
  2. Click Convert to Excel.
  3. Open the .xlsx and check the numbers against the PDF.

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