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Extract to Excel

Best-effort extraction of selectable text rows into an Excel workbook. Scans need OCR first.

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Overview

About Extract to Excel

Reach for this when a PDF already holds tabular data as selectable text — an exported report, an invoice, a statement — and you want it back in a workbook you can sort and total. Your browser reads the text and its position on each page, then groups it into rows and columns to build an .xlsx file, all on your device. It is best-effort, not a true table-recognition engine, so dense or merged-cell layouts may land in the wrong columns and want a quick cleanup. If your PDF is a scan with no selectable text, run OCR on it first.

How it works

How to extract to excel

1

Add your file

Drop it in or click to choose. It stays on your device.

2

Set options

Tweak the settings, or just use the sensible defaults.

3

Download the result

One click. It was built right here, in your browser.

The honest difference

Why Unfleece vs fleeceware

Unfleece

  • Runs in your browser — no file upload
  • Free, no account, no card
  • Open source (AGPL-3.0)
  • No file-size paywall

Typical fleeceware site

  • Uploads your file to a server
  • $1 trial → ~$50 / week
  • Closed and opaque
  • Locks results behind pay
Questions

Frequently asked

Will it perfectly rebuild my original table?
Not always. This is best-effort extraction, not a true table-recognition engine, so it groups text by its position into rows and columns but can misplace cells in dense, multi-column, or merged-cell layouts. Treat the result as a starting point and expect to tidy a few columns.
My PDF is a scan and the sheet comes out empty — why?
A scanned PDF is just page images with no selectable text underneath, so there is nothing for this tool to pull into cells. Run our OCR tool on the file first to add a selectable text layer, then extract to Excel.
What does the output file look like?
You get a single .xlsx workbook containing the text extracted from your PDF, arranged into rows and columns. It captures the text content, not the original styling, colors, or formulas, since the source PDF stores none of those.
Are my files uploaded anywhere?
No. Your browser reads the PDF, extracts the text, and builds the Excel workbook entirely on your device — nothing is sent to a server. Open the Network tab and run it: you will see no file-upload request.
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