TL;DR Key Takeaways : Open a blank workbook in Microsoft Excel. Navigate to the ‘Data’ tab in the Excel ribbon. Select ‘Get Data’ and then choose ‘From File’ followed by ‘From PDF’.

Here’s how to convert a PDF to Excel, for free, so you can upload tables into a spreadsheet When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Open the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat. Locate the “Export PDF” tool in the toolbar or menu options. Select “Spreadsheet” as the format and choose Excel (.xlsx) as the output type.

1. Copy the source table from a PDF file. Open the PDF file in Adobe Reader, or any other PDF viewer, select the table you want to convert to Excel and press Ctrl+C to copy it to the clipboard. 2.

Free PDF to Excel Converter is a dedicated free batch PDF to Excel converter for Windows 10. This freeware allows you to convert multiple PDF files to XLS, XLSX, and CSV file formats.

How we tested the converter tools To help you find what’s best for your tasks, we tested seven PDF to Excel conversion tools using four different PDF files ranging from simple to nightmare.