Extract tables from a PDF into an Excel spreadsheet, one sheet per page.
Works best with PDFs that contain real (ruled or well-aligned) tables. Scanned tables need OCR first.
Quick answer
To convert PDF to Excel, open PDFella's PDF to Excel converter, upload your PDF and click PDF to Excel. Tables on each page are detected and written to an XLSX workbook with one sheet per page. Download the spreadsheet when it's ready.
Updated 5 October 2026 by the PDFella team
Key facts
Step by step
Drag your PDF onto the upload area or click Choose file. It's sent over an encrypted connection to private, temporary storage for conversion.
Click PDF to Excel. Upload and processing progress are shown as a percentage.
Rename the file if you like and click Download. The result is ready in seconds.
Why PDFella
Ruled and aligned tables are detected on each page.
Values like 1,250.00 become numbers you can sum.
Easy to find each page's data.
Files are processed in an isolated container and deleted automatically after conversion, within 60 minutes at most.
PDFs that were exported from Excel or accounting software convert best because their tables contain real text. Scanned statements need OCR PDF first. If a page has no ruled table, its text lines are split into columns where there are wide gaps.
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Upload the PDF to PDF to Excel and click PDF to Excel. Download the XLSX when it's ready.
Yes, this tool uses secure cloud processing. Files are deleted automatically after conversion, within 60 minutes at most.
Yes. Numeric values are written as numbers.
Run OCR PDF first, then convert.
Yes, within a generous daily allowance for cloud tools.
Text lines are split into columns at wide gaps, one row per line.