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How to Convert PDF to Excel Online Free
A PDF is a poor place to analyse data — you can read it, but you cannot sort or filter it. This guide shows how to convert a PDF to an Excel spreadsheet for free, in your browser, so lists, records and report text become rows you can actually work with. Use the free PDF to Excel converter below to extract your spreadsheet in seconds.
How to Convert PDF to Excel — step by step
- Choose a PDF with “Select PDF file”.
- Press “Convert to Excel”.
- Download the spreadsheet, named converted.xlsx.
- Open it in Excel or a compatible app and sort or filter the rows.
Tips
- Each PDF page becomes a row with its page number and its text, so you can trace every row back to its page.
- Complex table layout is not preserved exactly — text is extracted page by page into the spreadsheet.
- If you only need some pages, split the PDF first to the pages you want, then convert that smaller file.
Frequently asked questions
Will tables be recreated exactly?
No. Text is extracted page by page into a spreadsheet; complex table layout is not preserved exactly.
Can I choose which pages to extract?
No, all pages are extracted, one row per page. If you only need some pages, split the PDF first to the pages you want, then convert that smaller file to Excel.
What does each row contain?
A page label and that page's extracted text, so you can trace every row back to its page.