Convert PDF to Excel
Upload a PDF, select the pages that contain your tables and click Convert to Excel. PDFYork's server detects table structure and writes each selected page to its own worksheet in an XLSX file. An account is required.
Before you start
- Where your file is processed
- On the PDFYork server. Your file is uploaded over HTTPS, processed, and stored temporarily for download. Stored copies are set to be deleted about 30 minutes after processing.
- Account
- Required. Sign in before using this tool, because it runs on our server.
- Cost
- Premium tool. Free accounts get 3 premium tasks per day. After that, each task uses 100 credits, deducted when you download the result.
How to Use
Sign in and upload
Sign in, then drop one PDF onto the upload area. Page previews appear.
Select pages
Click the pages that contain tables, or select all.
Convert
Click Convert to Excel. The server extracts the tables from the selected pages.
Download and check
Download the XLSX file and check numbers, dates and merged cells before relying on them.
What works best
Table extraction is most reliable on PDFs that were generated by software, such as online banking statements, invoices from accounting tools and exported reports, where the table has clear rows and columns of real text.
- One sheet per page. Each selected PDF page becomes its own worksheet, which keeps multi-page statements easy to check against the original.
- Numbers and dates are extracted as text from the PDF. Check thousands separators, negative numbers in brackets and date formats, and convert columns in Excel if needed.
- Merged or borderless cells can be split or joined differently from the PDF.
Scanned statements
If a page has no text layer (a scan or photo), the engine tries to read it with OCR, but results are far less reliable than with digital PDFs. For important figures, compare the spreadsheet with the PDF line by line.
How the conversion runs
This conversion runs on the PDFYork server, so you need to be signed in. Your PDF is uploaded over HTTPS, converted, and the result is stored temporarily for download. Server copies are set to be removed about 30 minutes after processing.
Use Cases
Bank statements
Turn monthly statement PDFs into spreadsheets for budgeting or bookkeeping.
Supplier invoices
Pull line items into Excel to reconcile against purchase orders.
Published data
Extract tables from government or research reports for your own analysis.