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PDF to CSV

The first table in the PDF, as a CSV any spreadsheet or script reads.

More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.Add to Chrome

How to convert PDF to CSV

  1. Drop the PDF.
  2. Nothing to choose.
  3. Press Convert and download the CSV.

What happens to your file

The PDF’s text layer is read with its positions; the first run of three or more lines whose cells line up in columns is the table, and it is written as CSV — commas, CRLF rows, quotes only where a cell holds a comma or a quote. The report says how many tables the PDF holds and which page this one came from.

A PDF with several tables: PDF to Excel gives every one its own sheet. A PDF with none, or a scan, is refused by name.

Questions

Which table?

The first one in reading order. For the others, PDF to Excel.

Do it once, not on every form

Fixing a file here means downloading it and going back to the form. The Fylane extension does this work inside the form instead, on the file you already have.

And it keeps the result. The next application that asks for a résumé, a cover letter and a photo fills all three from one tap, each one refitted to what that site accepts.

Your files stay in the browser, encrypted, on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to keep them and nothing is sent anywhere to fill a form.

Filmed from the extension: three upload fields on a job application, filled from one tap.

Add to Chrome — freeWhat it does

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "convert",
    "options": {
      "to": "csv"
    }
  }'

The same operation, convert — Documents into another document format: Office, text and HTML to PDF by default, or by `to` into docx, odt, rtf, txt, html, xlsx, ods, csv, pptx, odp, md or epub (Markdown and EPUB through pandoc). Images to WebP. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.