Plicum Tools PDF → Excel

Extract the tables of a PDF into a spreadsheet

Rows and columns that in the PDF are merely drawn become cells again. Useful when a statement, a schedule or a list has to be recalculated and not just read.

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In three steps

Load the PDF

The document is read on your device.

Plicum detects the tables

Rows and columns are reconstructed from the arrangement of the text.

Download the sheet

Open the result in Excel, LibreOffice or Google Sheets.

What happens to your file

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The file does not leave your device. Thirty-two tools out of thirty-eight.

PDF → Excel: frequently asked questions

On regular tables with aligned columns it works well. On tables with merged cells, multi-level rows or columns separated only by spaces, the result needs checking: a PDF does not say where a cell ends, the structure is inferred. It is always worth verifying the totals.

OCR is needed first: on an image there is no text to arrange into columns. After OCR detection becomes possible, with the same caveat about checking.

No: conversion happens in the browser and the file is not uploaded to Plicum servers.

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