It found nothing in my PDF.

The PDF is probably a scan with no text layer. Run PDF OCR first. Otherwise lower the minimum rows and the column gap.

Some rows have cells in the wrong column.

That usually means a blank cell. Nudge the column gap, and tidy the CSV in your spreadsheet — a few seconds of cleanup beats retyping the table.

Are merged cells supported?

Merged and multi-line cells are inherently ambiguous in a PDF. They extract as their nearest single-row equivalent and may need a manual fix.

Are my files uploaded anywhere?

No. Every operation runs inside your browser tab using JavaScript and WebAssembly. Nothing is transmitted to MyToolyard or any third party, and nothing is stored after you close the tab.

Is there a file size or page limit?

There is no artificial limit — the practical ceiling is your device's memory. Files up to roughly 100MB are comfortable on a modern laptop; very large scanned documents are best processed in smaller batches.

Does it work on a phone or tablet?

Yes. The interface is fully responsive and touch-friendly. Very large documents will be slower on mobile because processing uses the device's own CPU and memory.

PDF Table Extractor

Find the tables in a PDF and export them as CSV, TSV or JSON — with column detection you can tune when a layout is unusual.

No training on your data
Region: global

Drop a PDF containing tables

Click, drag or paste — tables are detected on your device

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PDF Table Extractor — Overview

About this tool

What is PDF Table Extractor?

PDF Table Extractor rescues tables trapped inside PDFs. It measures the horizontal position of every word on the page, spots the blank gaps that separate columns, groups the words into rows, and hands you a real table you can export.

Copy any detected table straight into Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers, or download it as CSV or JSON. Because detection is geometric rather than guesswork, you can tune it: widen the column gap when columns merge, narrow it when one column splits in two.

Everything happens in the browser, which matters for the kind of tables that live in PDFs — payroll, bank statements, lab results and pricing schedules.

What it does

What does PDF Table Extractor do?

Table extraction you can actually control:

Automatic detection of table blocks across every page
Adjustable column gap, minimum columns and minimum rows
Header-row handling that produces named JSON keys
Copy as tab-separated text — paste straight into a spreadsheet
Per-table CSV and JSON download, plus a combined CSV of everything
Row, column and page counts so you can sanity-check the result

How to use

How to use PDF Table Extractor

1
Drop a PDF with tables
Every page is scanned for text laid out in aligned columns.
2
Tune the detection
If columns are merging, lower the column gap. If one column is splitting, raise it. Adjust the minimum rows to ignore stray two-line blocks.
3
Export
Copy a table for Excel, or download it as CSV or JSON — including all tables as one CSV file.

Good to know

Privacy & cost

This tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, logged, or saved on our servers — safe for confidential or proprietary data.

Use cases & scenarios

Where it fits

Bank and card statements

Turn a monthly statement PDF into CSV for your accounting software instead of typing it in.

Price lists and catalogues

Extract supplier pricing tables into a spreadsheet for comparison and markup calculations.

Reports and research data

Pull the numbers out of a published report so you can chart or recompute them yourself.

Value & benefits

Why people pick this tool

✓Free forever — no page caps, watermarks, sign-ups or premium tier
✓100% in-browser processing — your documents never touch a server
✓Works offline once the page has loaded, ideal for confidential files
✓No queues or waiting rooms — the work happens at the speed of your device

Frequently asked questions

FAQs

Final thoughts

The bottom line

A table in a PDF is only a picture of a table until something reconstructs the grid. Doing that locally gives you a free, unlimited PDF-to-CSV path for exactly the financial documents you would never want to upload.