PDF to Excel
Extract tables from a PDF into an .xlsx workbook
How table detection works: we try both detection strategies in order of accuracy:
- Auto (recommended) — tries ruled-line detection first; if a page has no visible table borders, falls back to text-alignment detection (catches borderless tables in financial reports, invoices, schedules).
- Lines only — only tables with visible borders. Most accurate but misses borderless tables.
- Text alignment only — finds tables by detecting columns of aligned text. Catches borderless tables but can occasionally false-positive on multi-column body text.
Still get "no tables found"? Try our PDF to Word tool in Layout mode instead — it uses pdf2docx which is more aggressive about table detection. If your PDF is scanned, run it through OCR PDF first.