Turn the tables in a PDF into an Excel workbook. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
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Save the XLSX, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
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A table in a PDF is only text placed in rows and columns; the file does not say it is a table. Getting the numbers into a spreadsheet by copying usually runs the columns together. This looks for the tables on each page, puts each one on its own sheet, and stores numbers as numbers so they can be added up. It reads tables, not pages: text that is not in a table is not copied.
The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can choose which pages to convert and set or supply a password.
Each table found becomes a sheet. A table drawn with lines is read from its lines; one with no lines is found from the way its words line up, which is a good guess and not a promise, and some layouts defeat it. A value is stored as a number only when it can be read one way, and a code with a leading zero, a zip or a phone number stays text. Text that is not in a table is not copied, and a scanned PDF, which holds pictures of pages rather than text, ends with a plain message until OCR PDF has given it a text layer. A password-protected PDF needs its password, entered under Options; without it the file is refused.
PDF fixes a document's layout so it looks identical on every screen and printer. That makes it the default for forms, invoices and anything sent to print, and also what makes it awkward to edit.
Opens in Every browser, phone and computer
PDF converterXLSX is Excel's format since Office 2007. A workbook can hold many sheets with formulas, formatting and charts. Programs and scripts usually prefer the same data as CSV or JSON.
Opens in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, LibreOffice Calc
XLSX converter| PDFPDF document | XLSXExcel workbook | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Portable Document Format | Office Open XML Workbook |
| Type | Fixed-layout document | Spreadsheet workbook |
| Compression | Mixed: text is stored as text, images keep their own compression | ZIP container of XML |
| Introduced | 1993, by Adobe (an ISO standard since 2008) | 2007, by Microsoft |
| Opens in | Every browser, phone and computer | Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, LibreOffice Calc |
| Best for | Documents that must look the same everywhere, and printing | Spreadsheets with formulas, formatting and several sheets |
| File extension | .pdf, .ai | .xlsx |
A table is found when it is drawn with lines, or when its columns line up and its cells are short. A page of running text, a table laid out as one long paragraph, or a scan has none of those. A scan is a picture, so there is no text to read until OCR has made some, and OCR PDF can do that first.
A value is stored as a number only when it can be read one way. Codes with a leading zero, zip codes and phone numbers stay text on purpose, and so does anything like 1,5 that is a comma in one country and a thousands mark in another. Change those cells in Excel if you know which it is.
When the columns of the next page line up with the end of the last and the table starts at the top, the two are joined into one sheet, and a header row that each page repeats is kept once.
Not quite. A table with lines is read from the lines, which is reliable. A table without lines is found from how the words line up, which is a good guess on a clean layout and can go wrong on a crowded one. Look over the sheet before you rely on it.
No. The PDF to XLSX conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
The content is carried over as faithfully as XLSX allows; features that XLSX does not have are left out.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.