Extract tables from PDFPractice
Pull just the tables out of a PDF, as CSV or Excel — nothing else.
- No upload, ever
- Works offline
- Free to start
- No file-size limit
Practice tool, free during early access.
How it works
- Choose a PDF containing one or more tables.
- Pick CSV or Excel as the output.
- Select Extract tables and download the result.
Private by design
This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your files are never uploaded to a server, and the page is technically blocked from sending them anywhere.
Questions and answers
Is my PDF uploaded to extract its tables?
No. It is read and the files are built in your browser, on your device.
How is this different from PDF to Excel?
PDF to Excel keeps every page, prose included, one sheet each, so nothing from the document goes missing. This tool keeps only the pages where a table was actually found, and skips the rest entirely — for when you want just the data.
How does it find the tables?
The same way PDF to Excel does: by looking for vertical bands of blank space that run down the whole page. A PDF never records “this is a table”, only text at coordinates, so this is an educated guess based on alignment.
What if no table is found?
The tool says so rather than guessing — check that the PDF has a real column layout, or that it isn’t a scan with no text layer (run OCR PDF first).
A table spans several pages. What happens?
Each page becomes its own file (CSV) or sheet (Excel), in page order. They are not merged into one table, since telling where a continued table’s header ends and its data resumes is exactly the kind of guess this tool avoids making for you.
Why CSV as well as Excel?
CSV is the plainer choice when the data is headed into a script or another system; Excel is the one to open and check by eye. Pick whichever the next step needs.
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