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# PDF table to Excel converter (text PDFs)

A free Duaer tool that reads text positions in a PDF and rebuilds table rows and columns as Excel, in your browser. Best for PDFs with selectable text; invoices and statements with varied layouts fit a Duaer extraction flow.

Interactive converter (runs in the browser, no upload): https://doc.duaer.com/tools/pdf-table-to-excel/

## How to use it

1. Drop the file into the box above, or click "choose a file".
2. Check the preview to make sure rows and columns line up.
3. Click "Download .xlsx".
4. Pages are combined into one table by default; choose "One sheet per page" under Output to split them.

## What to expect

- Only PDFs whose text you can select and copy will work. Scans and photos have no text layer and are reported as unreadable.
- Rows follow text height and columns follow horizontal position. Ruled reports with one record per line work best.
- Cells spanning rows, rotated headers, and multi-column layouts may shift, so check the preview before downloading.

## Automate it in Duaer

Invoices and statements vary too much for position-based columns. Duaer reads the text with [Extract from File](/integrations/builtin/core-nodes/duaer-nodes-base.extractfromfile.md) › Extract From PDF and has a model pull out the fields; see [Extract PDF invoices to Excel](/tasks/pdf-invoices-to-excel.md).
## Questions

### Can it convert a scanned PDF?

Not on this page, which does no OCR. Duaer also needs OCR text first and then hands it to an extraction employee; see [Extract PDF invoices to Excel](/tasks/pdf-invoices-to-excel.md).

### The columns do not line up.

Try "One sheet per page", or merge shifted columns in Excel. For complex PDFs you convert every month, build an extraction flow in Duaer.

### What about password-protected PDFs?

The Duaer converter cannot open PDFs that need a password. Remove the password in your reader first.

## Related

- [Free file converters from Duaer](https://doc.duaer.com/tools.md)
- [CSV to Excel converter (free, no upload)](https://doc.duaer.com/tools/csv-to-excel.md)
- [Excel to CSV converter (UTF-8, no upload)](https://doc.duaer.com/tools/excel-to-csv.md)
- [JSON to CSV converter (nested JSON flattened)](https://doc.duaer.com/tools/json-to-csv.md)
- [Extract PDF invoices into an Excel sheet with Duaer](https://doc.duaer.com/tasks/pdf-invoices-to-excel.md)