How to convert a PDF to Excel (free, without uploading the file)

Senast uppdaterad: September 16, 2026

An invoice, a bank statement, a report from work: the figures you need are right there on the page, and you are about to retype them. Copying and pasting a PDF table usually makes things worse — everything lands in one column, in the wrong order. There is a better way, and it takes about ten seconds.

Convert it in your browser

1. Open PDF to Excel.
2. Choose your PDF.
3. Press Convert to Excel.
4. An .xlsx file downloads. Open it in Excel, LibreOffice Calc or Google Sheets.

Each table becomes its own sheet, in the order the tables appear. Nothing is uploaded: the file is read and the spreadsheet is built on your own device, which you can check for yourself.

Why only tables with drawn lines work

This is the part most converters do not tell you. A PDF does not know what a table is. It stores text at coordinates — "this word, here" — and nothing else. When the cells are outlined, the lines say exactly where each row and column ends, so the table can be rebuilt with certainty. When a document lines its figures up with spaces alone, any converter has to guess where the columns are, and the guess is wrong often enough to be worse than useless.

In practice this covers most of what people actually need: utility and phone invoices, bank statements, timetables, price lists, and anything exported from a spreadsheet. If your PDF has no ruled tables, the tool says so instead of inventing columns.

The figures come out as numbers

A PDF stores "1.234,56 €" as text. Pasted into a spreadsheet as text, it will not add up, and sorting puts 9 above 10. Both conventions are recognised here, so "1.234,56" and "1,234.56" become the same number, 1234.56, and your totals work. Anything that could be something else — a date, an invoice code, a phone number like "93 737 96 24" — is left as text on purpose, because turning that into a number destroys it.

What else is kept

• Merged cells: a title spanning the whole width, or a label covering two rows, stays merged.
• Tables broken by a page break: the two halves are joined into one sheet and the header row that programs repeat at the top of each page is dropped.
• The header row is set in bold so the sheet is ready to filter.
• Colours, fonts and formulas are not carried over. What you get are the values, which is what you wanted.

When it will not work

• Scanned tables. On a scan the lines are part of the image, so there is nothing to read. Run OCR PDF first to get the text, or use PDF to Word and rebuild the table by hand.
• Tables with no lines at all. Use PDF to Word: you get the text in reading order, which is far easier to tidy up than a bad guess at columns.
• Charts. A chart's gridlines look like a table but hold no text, and are deliberately ignored.

Check the totals before you send it on

Whatever tool you use, give the sheet one look: sum a column you already know the answer to and compare. It takes five seconds and catches the rare case where a document draws its lines in an unusual way.

Why doing it in the browser matters here

The documents that hold tables are the ones you should be most careful with: invoices with your address on them, statements with your account number, payroll reports with other people's salaries. Uploading those to a converter means trusting a promise to delete them. Here they are never uploaded at all — load the page, turn off your Wi-Fi, and the conversion still works.