Do I get an .xlsx file?

Yes. Each table becomes its own sheet, named after the page it came from, with every value in its own cell. Plain numbers are stored as numbers; values like 1,234.50 are kept as printed.

Does it work on scanned PDFs?

Yes. Scanned tables go through OCR, which is where most PDF to Excel converters return empty sheets.

Will formulas and formatting carry over?

No. A PDF only holds the printed values, so you get the numbers and text, not Excel formulas, colours or column widths.

What about tables that continue on the next page?

Each page's part comes back as its own sheet. Join them in Excel; the header row is repeated where the PDF repeats it.

Yes, 3 pages a day without an account. Sign up for 200 free credits if you need more.

What happens to my file?

Files are deleted after 24 hours. We do not train on them.

Convert PDF to Excel

Get the tables out of a PDF, including scanned ones, as an Excel file with one sheet per table.

Result

Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.

3 free pages a day, no sign-up.

How it works

1Upload your PDF
2We find every table, page by page
3Download the .xlsx file

Why use this PDF to Excel converter

Scanned tables too
Image-only PDFs are read with OCR, so scanned statements and reports still give you rows and columns.
Tables only where they are tables
The surrounding text is kept separate, so paragraphs do not end up in cells.
JSON rows for scripts
With JSON output, each table has rows as arrays, which a few lines of code can write to .xlsx or .csv.

What people use it for

Getting financial tables from annual reports into a spreadsheet
Copying price lists and inventories out of supplier PDFs
Reading tables from scanned invoices and statements
Moving research data tables into Excel for analysis

Models that do this well

The free tool picks one for you. With the API you choose, and can set fallbacks so a failed page is retried on the next model.

1Mistral OCRFast document OCR that returns clean Markdown with tables and embedded images.mistral/mistral-ocr6 credits / page 2Azure Document IntelligenceAzure layout model with tables, selection marks and prebuilt invoice and ID readers.azure/document-intelligence15 credits / page 3Amazon TextractAWS OCR with form key-value pairs, tables and per-word confidence scores.aws/textract6 credits / page 4LlamaParseDocument parser built for RAG pipelines, with several quality tiers.llamaindex/llamaparse5 credits / page

Do it with the API

Converting more than a few files? The same conversion is one request. Pick any model, or let auto choose.

Get API key

curl https://api.ocrrouter.ai/v1/ocr \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OCRROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "auto",
    "file_url": "https://example.com/invoice.pdf",
    "format": "markdown"
  }'

Questions

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