Convert PDF to Excel — tables from the text layer
Rows from lines, columns from the gaps between them, one sheet per page.
PDF to Excel now — free →Bindery reads the position of every piece of text on each page, groups it into rows, finds the column gutters, and writes a standard .xlsx with one sheet per page. Plain numbers — including ones with thousands separators — become real numeric cells you can sum and sort.
Ruled tables and aligned columns carry over well; free-form prose lands in a single column, and scanned pages have no text layer to read (run OCR first). Bindery runs entirely in your browser — your file is never uploaded, so there is nothing to delete from a server afterwards.
How it works
- Drop the PDF and open PDF → Excel
- Bindery detects rows and columns locally
- Download the .xlsx
Questions people ask
Does it work on scanned PDFs?
Not directly — a scan has no text layer. Run OCR in Bindery first (six languages, on-device), then convert the searchable result.
Will numbers be numbers?
Yes. Cells that are plain numbers, with or without thousands separators and decimals, are written as numeric cells; currency and percentage strings stay text so nothing is silently altered.
Which apps open the result?
Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers and LibreOffice Calc all open the standard .xlsx package.