Extract Tables from a PDF to Excel, Free
Turn the tables in a PDF into real spreadsheet columns
🔒 No upload • No account • No watermark • Runs in your browser
Extract tables uses the PDF to Excel tool: it finds the tables on each page and puts them into a workbook, with columns split properly and numbers stored as numbers.
How to use Extract tables
- Open the tool and choose your PDF.
- Press Convert to Excel.
- Download the .xlsx, which has one sheet per page.
- Check the totals against the PDF.
Features
- Detects tables with or without ruled lines.
- Amounts and percentages become numbers.
- One worksheet per page.
- Private and free.
Good to know
- Works best on digital PDFs such as statements, invoices and price lists.
- Scanned pages need OCR PDF first.
- Always compare key totals with the original.
Questions and answers
Can it read a scanned table?
Run OCR PDF on the scan first, then convert.
Are merged cells kept?
Where the layout is clear, yes. Otherwise columns may be grouped and you can split them in Excel.
Is the data uploaded?
No. The conversion runs in your browser.
Privacy
This tool runs inside your browser. Your file is read into your device’s memory, processed there and handed back as a download. It is not sent to a FirePDF server. You can test this by switching off your internet connection after the page has loaded and running the tool again. Read the Privacy Policy and the Security page for details.