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PDF to Excel
Pull tables and data from a PDF into an editable Excel spreadsheet.
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PDF to Excel processes files locally in your browser.
Convert PDF tables to an editable Excel spreadsheet
Pull tables and data out of a PDF into a real, editable .xlsx workbook. Everything runs locally so your file stays on your device.
How to convert PDF to Excel
- Choose or drop a PDF file.
- The tool checks the PDF has real, extractable text.
- Convert to Excel.
- Download the resulting .xlsx workbook.
What gets reconstructed
- Regularly-gridded tables as real worksheet rows and columns (best-effort), each on its own sheet.
- A table that continues across a page break is merged into one sheet only when the columns clearly line up.
- Unambiguous numbers, currency amounts, and dates as real numeric/date cells — not just text.
- Pages with text but no detected table as a fallback text sheet, so output is never silently empty.
Browser privacy
- Processing occurs locally in the browser.
- Files are not uploaded to Looty Tools.
- Conversion results remain on your device.
Limits
- Maximum file size is 25 MB, up to 50 pages.
- Scanned or image-only PDFs have no extractable text. If the whole document is scanned it is rejected with a clear message; if only some pages are scanned, those pages are skipped and noted while the rest still converts — this tool does not perform OCR.
- Table detection is best-effort: irregular, merged-cell, or loosely-aligned tables may come through as plain text instead of a structured table.
- A few value types are deliberately kept as text instead of guessed — percentages, leading-zero codes like ZIP codes, long ID/account numbers, and locale-ambiguous slash-formatted dates.
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Guides
- How to Convert PDF to ExcelPull tables and data from a PDF into an editable .xlsx workbook in your browser. Covers how-to steps, what gets reconstructed, and key limits.
- PDF to Excel Table DetectionHow PDF to Excel detects regularly-gridded tables, merges tables split across pages, and rebuilds them as real spreadsheet rows and columns on a best-effort basis.
- PDF to Excel Scanned PDF LimitationsWhy scanned or image-only PDF pages have no extractable table data, how PDF to Excel detects and handles mixed documents, and why this tool does not perform OCR.
PDF to Excel FAQ
- Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?
- No. Conversion runs locally in the browser. Your PDF is not uploaded to Looty Tools.
- Does this work on scanned PDFs?
- No, not for the scanned pages. If a whole PDF is scanned/image-only it is rejected with a clear message. If only some pages are scanned, the tool extracts what it can from the text pages and notes which pages were skipped. This tool does not perform OCR.
- How are tables detected?
- The tool looks for regularly-gridded regions of text on each page and reconstructs them as real spreadsheet rows and columns on a best-effort basis. A table split across two pages is merged into one sheet only when the columns clearly line up.
- Are numbers and dates kept as real values?
- Unambiguous numbers, currency amounts, and dates (like ISO or month-name dates) are converted to real numeric/date cells. Anything that could lose meaning if converted — percentages, leading-zero codes like ZIP codes, long ID numbers, and locale-ambiguous slash dates — is kept as text to avoid a silently wrong value.
- What happens if my PDF has no tables?
- Pages without a detected table still produce a sheet containing the extracted text, so the output is never empty for a PDF that has real text.
- What is the maximum PDF size?
- The maximum file size is 25 MB, with up to 50 pages.