PDF to Excel

How it works

1. Upload. Choose a PDF that contains one or more tables (up to 25 MB).
2. Extract. Press Convert to Excel — every detected table is read into its own sheet.
3. Download. Your .xlsx workbook downloads automatically; the PDF is never stored.

About this tool

PDF to Excel finds the tables in your PDF and rebuilds them as a real .xlsx workbook you can sort, filter and edit, instead of leaving the numbers trapped as flat text. Each table it detects becomes its own sheet, labelled by page, so a multi-page financial PDF comes out organised rather than as one jumble. It works on PDFs that contain genuine, ruled or aligned tables; a scanned image of a table has no data layer to read. No watermark, no signup, and the PDF is parsed in memory and discarded.

What people use it for

• Get a bank or invoice table into a spreadsheet without retyping
• Reuse data from a PDF report in your own calculations
• Turn a price list PDF into a sortable, filterable sheet
• Extract a results table from a research PDF for analysis

Developer API

Automate this tool from your own code. Send a POST request to the endpoint below and get the same result the web tool produces. It is rate-limited per IP and needs no signup — API keys for higher limits are coming.

• cURL
• Python
• JavaScript

curl -X POST https://best.free/api/tools/pdf-to-excel/ \
  -F 'file=@report.pdf' \
  -o tables.xlsx

import requests

files = {"file": open("report.pdf", "rb")}

r = requests.post("https://best.free/api/tools/pdf-to-excel/", files=files)
with open("tables.xlsx", "wb") as out:
    out.write(r.content)

const fd = new FormData();
fd.append("file", fileInput.files[0]);

const r = await fetch("https://best.free/api/tools/pdf-to-excel/", { method: "POST", body: fd });
const blob = await r.blob();  // the tables.xlsx

Response: An .xlsx workbook, one sheet per detected table.

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