Extract Tables from PDF Online
Extract table data from a PDF and turn it into real rows and columns you can edit, calculate with, and export. Tabulyn finds the tabular data on every page and lets you convert PDF tables to CSV or Excel in a couple of clicks — no installs, no signup. Works on digital PDFs — reports, statements, exports from accounting and analytics software.
Drop your PDF here, or browse files
PDF · up to 10 MB · up to 30 pages
- No signup needed
- Auto table detection
- Files auto-deleted
How to Extract a Table from PDF
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Upload your PDF
Drag it in or browse — nothing is installed, extraction happens right in the browser tab.
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Let Tabulyn find the tables
Every table on every page is detected automatically, including ones with no border lines.
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Review the preview
Each table opens as an editable grid, so you can fix a misread cell before exporting.
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Export CSV or Excel
Download one table or all of them, with numbers and dates kept as typed values.
Convert PDF Tables to CSV or Excel
Once a table is extracted, pick the format you need. Export to CSV for a plain, portable file that opens in any spreadsheet or gets piped into another tool, or export to Excel when you want typed numbers, dates, and formatting preserved in an .xlsx workbook. Both exports come from the same extracted data, so there's nothing to redo if you need the other format later.
Why Use Tabulyn for PDF Table Extraction
Multiple tables per document
Every table is detected and labelled by page and position, so a 12-page report with tables scattered through it comes back organised rather than merged into one blob.
Tables split across pages
When a table continues onto the next page and repeats its header row, the rows are stitched back into one continuous table instead of becoming one sheet per page.
Structure kept rectangular
Merged cells are unmerged, blank spacer rows are dropped when unambiguous, and every row is padded to the same column count — what a spreadsheet actually needs.
Values that stay values
Currency, percentages, whole numbers, decimals, and ISO dates are detected during extraction and written to Excel as typed values, so totals and formulas work immediately.
The one thing that decides whether it works
Open your PDF and try to select a value inside the table with your cursor. If the text highlights, the document is digital and extraction will work. If nothing highlights, the page is an image — a scan or a photo — and the text has to be recognised with OCR first, which Tabulyn doesn't support yet.
This single check predicts the result more reliably than anything else about the file: its size, its page count, or which program produced it.
Where people use this
Finance and accounting
Moving statement and ledger tables into a working spreadsheet.
Research and academia
Pulling results tables out of papers for reanalysis.
Operations
Turning supplier and inventory reports into something sortable.
Data work
Getting a quick structured export without writing a parser.
Questions about table extraction
How does table detection actually work?
A PDF stores characters at fixed coordinates plus the lines drawn around them — it has no concept of a row or a column. The extractor reads those ruling lines to find the grid, falls back to analysing whitespace alignment when a table has no borders, then assigns each piece of text to the cell whose bounds contain it.
Can it find more than one table on the same page?
Yes. Each table on a page is detected separately and labelled by position — page 2, table 1; page 2, table 2 — so you can export them individually or together as separate worksheets.
What if the table has no borders or grid lines?
Borderless tables are detected using column alignment instead of ruling lines. This works well for consistently aligned data and less well when columns are ragged, so borderless results are worth a closer look in the preview before exporting.
How accurate is the extraction?
For clean digital PDFs with ruled tables, structure is usually reproduced exactly. Accuracy drops with unusual layouts: nested tables, cells spanning several columns, or footnote rows mixed into the data. That's precisely why every table opens in an editable preview — you see what was extracted before committing to a download.
Is there a limit on table size?
No limit on rows or columns within a table. The limits are on the document: 10 MB and 30 pages per PDF on the free tier.
Is it free to extract a table from a PDF?
Yes. Uploading a PDF, previewing the detected tables, and exporting to CSV or Excel is free, with no signup and no watermark, up to the 10 MB / 30-page document limit.
Can I extract a table from a PDF online without installing anything?
Yes — table extraction runs entirely in the browser tab. There's nothing to install: upload the PDF, review the tables it finds, and download the result.