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The numbers you need are sitting in a bank statement or supplier invoice, and retyping forty rows isn't happening. This pdf to excel converter reads the table structure out of your PDF, shows you a faithful preview, and exports a real .xlsx workbook. Amounts become actual numbers you can sum, bold headers stay bold, and right-aligned columns stay right-aligned. When you go from pdf to excel here, everything runs in your browser, so a statement full of account details never leaves your machine. If the file is a scan with no text layer, built-in OCR takes over automatically, with more than 15 languages to choose from. Upload, preview, download, and start filtering.

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How to use

01

Upload the PDF and set the OCR language

Drop in any text-based or scanned PDF up to 100 MB. The OCR language select only matters for scans; keep English unless the document uses another script.

02

Click Analyze & preview

The tool extracts the tables, switching to OCR automatically when there's no text layer, then renders a preview that matches exactly what the workbook will contain.

03

Click Download Excel

Press Download Excel to save the .xlsx, one worksheet per PDF page. Use Re-run to process again, or Use another PDF to switch files.

Why PDF to Excel

Common questions

Does PDF to Excel work on scanned documents?
Yes. If the analysis finds no real text layer, the tool switches to OCR automatically and tells you it did. The first OCR run downloads language data, so it takes longer, and you should double check important values in the preview afterwards.
Can it convert pdf table to excel with the formatting intact?
That's the point of this export. Bold text, centered letterheads, right-aligned amounts, column widths, and the horizontal rules around headers and totals are reproduced in the workbook. The preview shows you the exact layout before you commit.
How are amounts treated in the exported Excel workbook?
Values that look like money, such as 12,480.50, are written as real numbers with a matching display format instead of text. That means SUM and pivot tables work immediately, no find and replace on commas required.
Is a bank statement safe to run through this Excel converter?
The extraction, the OCR, and the workbook generation all happen in your browser. The PDF is never uploaded, which is exactly what you want for statements and invoices.
Why does my pdf to xlsx online export contain several worksheets?
Each PDF page becomes its own sheet named Page 1, Page 2, and so on, mirroring the source. If you want one continuous table, paste the sheets together in your spreadsheet after the export.
What should I do when a scanned table comes out wrong in Excel?
Re-run with the correct OCR language first, since reading Gujarati with the English model produces garbage. If the scan itself is blurry or skewed, the OCR has little to work with, and a cleaner rescan beats any setting.
Does the Excel export handle statements longer than a few pages?
Yes, within the 100 MB upload cap. Native-text statements process quickly; OCR on long scans takes noticeably longer because every page is rasterized and read. The progress bar tells you which stage you're in.

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