Many PDF converters even allow you to directly edit images, text, and pages stored in a PDF document and export them into an Excel spreadsheet.Īdobe Acrobat, as the original developer of the PDF format, of course, includes the conversion feature. Once completed, you can then edit the spreadsheet tables. The converted file can retain not only text and images but also the formatting, fonts, and colors. The converters can transform PDF files into Excel in seconds and the process is quite streamlined- open the PDF file, click a convert button and export the Excel file. PDF to Excel converters are widely available and come as desktop, web-based and even mobile solutions. It would be much better to let dedicated tools to automate the whole job.

Obviously, this method is tedious when you have tons of files. Sometimes when you need to copy a table, you may need to paste it to Word document first and then copy and paste from Word to Excel to have a structured table.

Just open every single document, select the text you want to extract, copy & paste to the Excel file. To be honest, if you’ve only got a handful of PDF documents to extract data from, manual copy & paste is a fast way.

Insert pdf table into excel