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Extract Tables from PDFs to Excel. Offline. Accurate. In Bulk.

PDF2Excel pulls the tables out of PDFs and saves them as clean Excel workbooks, on your own PC. Nothing is uploaded. One file or a whole batch.

  • Typed PDFs, scans and photos, one app
  • Real Excel tables you can sort and filter right away
  • Your files never leave your PC
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No credit card, no sign-up. Windows 10 & 11.

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Pages, size or daily use
$39
Once. No subscription
14 days
No-questions refund

How it compares

Excel has a built-in PDF import, and this site has a free online extractor. Both are fine at their job. This is where each one stops.

  Excel's built-in import Free online tool PDF2Excel
Scanned PDFs No, there is no OCR Up to 3 pages Yes, unlimited
File size limit None 5 MB None
Page limits None 30 typed, 3 scanned None
Conversions per day Unlimited 3 Unlimited
Batch conversion One PDF at a time One at a time Whole folders at once
Needs Excel installed Excel 2019 or newer No No
Effort per PDF Power Query editor, every file Upload, wait, download Drop it, done
Works offline Yes No Yes
Where scans are read Not supported On a remote server On your PC
Price Free with a recent Excel Free $39 once

What you need

A Windows PCWindows 10 or 11
Nothing else to installNo Python, no add-ins, no GPU. The AI models are built in. You do not even need Excel to convert
Not even an internet connectionIt extracts offline. You only go online to activate a license

What it reads

Typed PDFs, scanned PDFs, photos and screenshots. Every page is checked and gets the right engine on its own.

Digital PDFs
  • Invoices
  • Statements
  • Reports
  • Exports

PDFs with real text are read straight from the text layer. The fast path: a file takes seconds.

Scanned PDFs
  • Scans
  • Faxes
  • Paper archives

No text inside? The built-in AI vision model finds the tables and reads them, page by page, on your PC.

Images and photos
  • PNG
  • JPG
  • TIFF
  • BMP
  • WEBP

A photo or screenshot of a table counts too. Multi-page TIFFs stay multi-page.

Mixed documents are fine. A report where page 3 is a pasted scan? Each page gets the right engine automatically.

Before and after: a scanned paper supplier table with quantities, VAT and GBP amounts, and below it the same data as a native Excel Table with a blue header and banded rows

A scan goes in, a spreadsheet comes out

The whole product in one picture. On top, a photographed paper table. Below, the Excel Table that PDF2Excel builds from it: same rows, same columns, nothing retyped.

  • Headers, rows and columns land where they belong
  • A real Excel Table, ready to sort, filter and sum
  • Numbers come from the page, never invented

What you can do

Your files never leave your PC

Most PDF converters are websites: you upload a bank statement and hope. PDF2Excel is a program on your computer. There is no upload, because there is no server.

  • Nothing is uploadedEvery extraction, the AI included, runs on your computer. Not even I can see your files.
  • No account, no trackingInstall it and use it. The free conversions need no sign-up, and nothing of yours is sent anywhere.
  • Works with the cable pulledExtract offline if you like. It only goes online to activate a license key.
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What people extract

Anything with rows and columns trapped in a PDF. Somebody usually retypes it; PDF2Excel exists so that somebody is not you.

Invoices and receiptsThe month-end stack becomes one workbook for the books, line items intact.
Bank and card statementsStatements the bank only hands out as PDF turn into rows you can sort and sum.
Reports and filingsPull the tables out of annual reports, filings and research papers without retyping a cell.
Price lists and catalogsSupplier PDFs become sheets you can VLOOKUP against your own numbers.

Honest feedback from real users

★★★★★

Responsive and open to feedback

“Impressed with both the products and the support. Very responsive to questions and open to improvement suggestions. I've purchased several tools and been happy with all of them.”

John

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Fantastic support

“Had a question and got a helpful reply within hours. Really solid support. Highly recommend.”

Gary S.

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★★★★★

An awesome program and creator

“Not only does the developer respond directly to your questions, he actually acts on them. I made a feature request and it was implemented the next day. That kind of dedication is rare.”

Rob

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Pay once, use it forever

Try it free on your own PDFs. When you want more, one payment unlocks unlimited extractions. No subscription, ever.

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  • 10 conversions, everything unlocked
  • Typed and scanned PDFs, photos too
  • Offline AI extraction included
  • No account, no sign-up
  • Updates through the Store
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  • Unlimited conversions
  • Typed and scanned PDFs, photos too
  • Offline AI extraction included
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  • Typed and scanned PDFs, photos too
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14-day refund, no questions asked. If it is not for you, email me and you get your money back.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Every install includes 10 free conversions with everything unlocked, the AI for scans included, so you can try the real app on your own documents before paying. Install it from the Microsoft Store, convert away, and enter a license key whenever you are ready. For a quick one-off there is also a free online table extractor on this site; it is capped at 5 MB, a few pages and 3 conversions a day, and it processes on a server, so anything private belongs in the app.
Both kinds. Digital PDFs with a text layer are read directly, which is fast. Scanned PDFs, where every page is really a picture, go through the built-in AI vision model that finds the table structure and reads the cells. Images work too: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP and WEBP, including photos of paper. Mixed documents are fine; every page is checked and gets the right engine automatically.
There is no language picker; the model reads pixels, not keyboard layouts. Out of the box it handles English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, and most Latin-script European languages such as German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch and Polish. Heavily accented characters come out slightly less accurately than plain English. Korean, Arabic, Hebrew and Cyrillic scripts are not supported in this release.
A real .xlsx workbook, one sheet per table, each one a native Excel Table with headers, auto-fit column widths and banded rows, so you can sort, filter and reference it immediately. A table that continues across pages is merged into a single sheet. PDF2Excel preserves the table structure, not the source PDF's fonts or colors. If you want the surrounding text as well, switch on page-text extraction in the settings and it lands next to the tables.
Honesty about OCR. When the model is not fully sure it read a cell of a scan correctly, it fills that cell light yellow and lists it on a Quality Control sheet at the end of the workbook. Instead of proofreading the whole table, you check the handful of flagged cells. The strictness is a slider in the settings, and digital PDFs never need it because there is nothing to guess.
Data > Get Data > From PDF is genuinely useful if your PDF is digital and you have a current Excel on Windows. But it cannot read scans at all (no OCR), it walks you through the Power Query editor for every single file, and there is no batch mode. PDF2Excel reads scans and photos, converts a folder full of files in one go, and does not even need Excel installed to do it.
For a small one-off table, go ahead. For real work they get in the way: you have to upload the file, long PDFs get cut off, columns slip, merged cells scramble, and a chatbot will confidently type a number that is not in the document. PDF2Excel uses purpose-built extraction engines instead of a chat model, runs on your PC, and handles a hundred files at once. Numbers either come from the page or get flagged, never invented.
No. Online tools usually stop at a few megabytes or pages per day; PDF2Excel has no page caps, no size limits and no daily quota. A 300-page scanned PDF simply takes a while, and the progress shows exactly which page the model is on.
No. The AI here is a set of vision models bundled inside the app that run on your CPU, not a cloud API. Nothing is uploaded, there is no API call, and no GPU is needed. Extraction works with the network cable pulled; the only thing that ever goes online is activating a license key, which sends the key and a device name to my server and nothing else. The free conversions send nothing at all.
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. The app installs from the Microsoft Store with everything included and uses about 650 MB on disk, most of that the AI models that make it work offline. 4 GB of RAM is plenty and no GPU is needed. You do not need Excel installed to convert; you just need something that opens .xlsx files to enjoy the result.
PDF2Excel currently ships through the Microsoft Store only. If your IT setup blocks the Store, email me and we will find a way; company installs are a conversation, not a dead end.
No. PDF2Excel needs Windows 10 or 11. It does run inside a Windows virtual machine on a Mac (Parallels, VMware Fusion, UTM). For single small files on any device, the free online table extractor works in the browser.
A Single User license covers up to 3 of your own PCs, for example a desktop, a laptop and a work machine. For a whole team, email me and you get one key for everyone at a sensible price.
The documentation covers setup and every setting, the app has a Get support button that opens the right page, and you can always email sven@pythonandvba.com. I reply myself, usually within 24 hours.
Yes, 14 days, no questions asked. Email me at sven@pythonandvba.com.
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