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How to convert PDF to Excel (and Excel to PDF)

Updated 23 October 2026

Tool for this guide: PDF to Excel

Short answer: open PDF to Excel, add the PDF and click Convert to Excel. Tables come out in rows and columns, and amounts like 1,234.50 become real numbers you can add up. To go the other way, use Excel to PDF.

What converts well

PDFResult
Invoices, receipts, price listsVery good: clean columns
Bank and card statementsGood: dates, descriptions and amounts in columns
Reports with tablesGood; text paragraphs go in the first column
Scanned pages (photos)No text to read; see below

Step by step: PDF to Excel

  1. Open PDF to Excel and add the PDF.
  2. Choose All pages in one sheet or One sheet per page.
  3. Keep Turn amounts into numbers ticked so totals work.
  4. Convert and open the .xlsx in Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers.

Numbers are cleaned up for you: 1,234.50 becomes 1234.5, (75.00) becomes −75 and 12% becomes 0.12. Codes with leading zeros, such as 00123, stay as text.

Step by step: Excel to PDF

  1. Open Excel to PDF and add an .xlsx or .csv file.
  2. Tick the sheets you want and choose Landscape for wide sheets.
  3. Tick First row is a header for bold column titles.
  4. Convert and download.

Both run in your browser, so statements and invoices stay on your device.

Scanned PDFs

Scans are pictures of text. Save the pages with PDF to JPG, read them with image to text (OCR), and paste the result into Excel.

Questions

Is it free?

Yes, both ways, with no sign-up or watermark.

My PDF is password-protected.

Remove the password with unlock PDF first.

Can I convert Google Sheets to PDF?

Yes. In Google Sheets choose File → Download → Microsoft Excel (.xlsx), then use Excel to PDF.

Try it now

Turn the tables in a PDF, such as invoices, bank statements and reports, into an Excel spreadsheet (.xlsx) you can sort and add up.

Open pdf to excel