Recover my PDF tables

Select a PDF table, adjust columns and edit cells. Combine pages into a CSV locally in your browser, without uploading your document.

Selectable-text PDF → UTF-8 CSV

View guide : Bring a PDF table into a spreadsheet (new tab)

Choose my PDF

100 MiB · 200 pages per PDF · 50 pages per extraction · up to 20 columns and 5,000 rows. Selectable-text PDFs without a password.

For simple tables with horizontal text. No OCR: image-only scans are not recognised.

A table to recover? Open your PDF to start.

1. Frame your table

Draw around the table including its column headers, leaving out the document title and notes. You can also choose the region using the keyboard.

Draw a frame around the table to start. No region is selected for you.

Set the region using the keyboard

Change these values to choose your region. Percentages refer to the displayed page.

Left (%)Top (%)Width (%)Height (%)

Number of columnsGroup text into rows (points)

Column dividers

2. Choose pages to combine All pages (${0}) The displayed page (${0} of ${1}) Specific pages

Example: 1-3, 5. The region and columns use the same relative positions on each page.

Remove the first row on later pages only when it exactly matches the first page’s first row

My table to check

Click cells to correct their text. Each detected text line becomes one table row; combine multiline cells manually.

CSV separator

UTF-8 CSV with an Excel marker. Cells that could start a formula receive a protective apostrophe, including negative numbers. Excel may change dates and leading zeros: import columns as text when needed.

Download my CSV

Formats and limits

100 MiB · 200 pages per PDF · 50 pages per extraction · up to 20 columns and 5,000 rows. Selectable-text PDFs without a password.

For simple tables with horizontal text. No OCR: image-only scans are not recognised.

Your PDFs and edits stay in this tab. No documents are uploaded. Download before closing or changing language.

Steps, formats and limits

How to use this tool

Open your PDF or try the two-page table.
Draw the table region, adjust columns and check the first rows shown.
Choose pages to combine, recover the table, edit cells and download your CSV.

Does a scanned PDF work?

Only if it already has correctly positioned selectable OCR text. No OCR is added. An image-only scan cannot provide a table.

Is the layout recognised automatically?

No. You choose the region and columns. Rows are grouped by vertical position. Merged cells, multiline labels and irregularly aligned tables need manual corrections.

Can I combine pages?

Yes, up to 50. The region and columns are reused proportionally on every page. Check them all. Only a first row exactly matching the initial header is removed, when you enable that option.

Does the CSV preserve my amounts?

Text is not converted to numbers. Accents, quotes, commas and zeros are exported as UTF-8. Potential formulas and negative numbers receive a protective apostrophe. Your spreadsheet may interpret data afterwards: use its text import when needed.

Where do files stay?

In this tab, without uploads or automatic document storage. Keep the original PDF and download the CSV before closing. A rejected import does not replace your edited table.

Read the practical guide: Bring a PDF table into a spreadsheet (new tab)