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PDF to Excel
Extract positioned Unicode text from every digital-PDF page into page-based Excel worksheets.
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One PDF up to 12 MiB and 50 pages. Every page must contain extractable text. No OCR, table inference, or formula creation.
What this conversion does
PDF.js extracts nonblank positioned text from each digital-PDF page. The converter sorts those text items from top to bottom and left to right, then writes one page-oriented worksheet for every source page.
How the workbook is structured
Source page 1 becomes a worksheet named Page 1, page 2 becomes Page 2, and so on. Each extracted text item occupies its own row, while its approximate horizontal position determines a column within the converter's fixed 50-column mapping.
Expected output
A two-page digital PDF produces Page 1 and Page 2 worksheets. Text near the left side of a PDF page is placed in an earlier worksheet column and text farther right in a later column, but the result remains an ordered extraction—not a reconstructed table.
Limitations and common failure cases
Not table recognition
The tool does not infer tables, merge related text into records, rebuild formulas, reproduce cell formatting, or recognize text in images. Visual PDF columns may not align with the resulting worksheet cells.
Files that can fail
Image-only or blank pages without extractable text cause conversion to fail; encrypted, corrupt, mislabeled, oversized, or over-limit PDFs are also rejected. A scanned PDF may work if it already has an extractable text layer.
The selected PDF is read and converted in your browser; this conversion path contains no document-upload request. Normal site resources may still load, so browser processing is not a confidentiality guarantee. Review every worksheet against the source PDF before using or sharing it.
Frequently asked questions
Does it recognize PDF tables?
No. It maps individual positioned text items into rows and approximate columns without inferring table structure.
Does it work with scans?
It may work only when every page already contains an extractable text layer. This tool does not perform OCR, so an image-only page fails.
Are formulas created?
No. The generated workbook contains explicit inline text cells only.
Why can columns differ from the PDF?
A PDF stores positioned drawing and text instructions, not spreadsheet columns. This tool estimates a worksheet column from each item's horizontal coordinate.
What PDFs work best?
Digital PDFs with selectable text and a simple reading order produce the clearest page-oriented extraction.