Extract data grids and tables from PDF files to editable Excel sheets (XLS/XLSX) online free. Perfect document layout preservation for flawless data processing.
Extract tabular data from PDF to Excel format — or drag & drop
Dudi PDF to Excel is a fast, 100% free, browser-based tool from Dudi PDF Editor that extracts tables and data grids from any digital PDF document into a fully editable Excel spreadsheet (XLSX) in seconds. Whether you need to pull a price list out of a supplier's PDF catalogue so you can re-sort it, extract financial figures from a bank statement or annual report so you can build a model, convert a printed inventory sheet back into rows and columns, digitise a research table from an academic paper, or recover tabular data from an invoice PDF that would take hours to retype, this tool does all of it without installing software, creating an account, verifying an email or paying any hidden fee. Unlike most online PDF to Excel converters, your file is never uploaded to a remote server. The entire process runs inside your browser using the well-known pdf.js and SheetJS JavaScript libraries — your PDF is read from your device, text and position data are extracted page by page, the tool intelligently detects row and column structure by analysing the X and Y coordinates of every text item, and a real .xlsx file is built in memory on your own device. That means your confidential bank statements, salary reports, client invoices, academic data and internal company tables never leave your computer or phone. There is no signup, no email required, no watermark added by us, no daily limit and no page-count restriction beyond your device's memory. The interface is built around a fast, informative workflow. As soon as you upload a PDF, Dudi PDF to Excel shows the file name, the page count and the file size, then gives you fine-grained control over the extraction. You can choose a detection method — Auto Detect (which analyses the PDF and picks the best algorithm automatically), Grid-based detection (perfect for PDFs with visible table borders and grid lines) or Stream-based detection (best for borderless PDFs where text is aligned in columns) — or simply leave it on Auto. You can target specific pages using the Page Range field by entering single pages (1, 3, 5), ranges (1-5) or combinations (1-3, 7, 10-12), which is invaluable when your PDF mixes narrative text with data tables on only some pages. You can decide whether the first row of the extracted table should be treated as column headers, which makes the output much easier to sort, filter and pivot in Excel, and you can name the resulting worksheet anything you like. Before downloading anything, you can review the extracted table in a clean live preview, complete with row count, column count and pages processed, so you know exactly what will appear in the Excel file. When you are happy, click Extract to Excel and the tool builds a real, standards-compliant .xlsx file that opens in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice Calc, Apple Numbers and every other major spreadsheet program. The data is fully editable — you can add formulas, re-sort rows, filter columns, apply conditional formatting and save the file exactly like any other Excel workbook. Because the converter focuses on text-based tables, digital PDFs produced by Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice, Excel and most modern reporting systems work perfectly. Scanned image-only PDFs cannot be read this way because there is no underlying text — for those you should first run the file through the Dudi OCR tool, which makes the text selectable, and then return to Dudi PDF to Excel. Complex formatting like cell colors, borders, merged cells, fonts, charts and embedded images are not preserved by design, because the goal is to give you clean, structured data as quickly as possible. The layout is fully responsive, so the settings panel, live preview and action buttons all stay easy to use on a small Android phone as well as on a large desktop monitor. After the first page load the libraries are cached, so the tool often keeps working even on a weak connection. Because Dudi PDF Editor never downloads automatically, nothing is written to your disk until you click the Download Excel button. The downloaded file is always named Dudi PDF Editor PDF to Excel.xlsx, and if you convert another file in the same session it becomes Dudi PDF Editor PDF to Excel (2).xlsx and so on, so your files stay clearly identifiable. If you need more tools, Dudi PDF Editor also offers Excel to PDF, PDF to Word, PDF to PowerPoint, PDF to Text, OCR, Word Maker, Word to PDF, JPG to PDF, Merge PDF, Split PDF, Compress PDF, Rotate PDF, PDF Page Numbers, Sign PDF, Protect PDF, Unlock PDF, Watermark PDF, Crop PDF, Extract Images and many other privacy-first utilities that all run locally in your browser with the same no-upload guarantee.