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PDF to Excel

Every table in the PDF, one sheet each, numbers as numbers.

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 Excel

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

What happens to your file

The PDF’s text layer is read with its positions, and a table is what looks like one: three or more consecutive lines whose cells start at the same columns. Each becomes a sheet named for its page; cells that read as numbers (12, 1,250.50, -7) are numbers in Excel, everything else is text. The report says how many tables were found.

The prose around the tables is not carried — PDF to Word keeps that. A PDF with no such lines is refused by name rather than handed back as an empty workbook; a scanned PDF has no text positions at all — Table from scan reads a table out of a picture.

Questions

Merged cells, colours, formulas?

None — a PDF holds none of them. What comes out is the grid of values, which is what you sum, sort and chart.

What if it found the wrong lines?

Lines of text that happen to have wide gaps in the same places look like a table to any reader. Delete the sheet; the rest are fine.

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": "xlsx"
    }
  }'

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.