Table Extractor

Pull tables out of images and PDFs into CSV/Excel.

✨ Premium AI engine
🔒 This is a Premium AI tool. Create a free account to use it. Sign up free Login

No languages match your search.

📊

Drag and drop, or paste a screenshot

Image, PDF, Word (DOCX) or text - drop, browse, paste, or use a URL

🔒 Your files are processed privately and deleted automatically.

Extract tables from PDF and image files and get back real, structured data instead of a wall of misaligned text. OCR.chat detects each table on the page with its premium AI engine and exports it as a proper CSV or Markdown table, with columns and rows that line up the way they do in the original.

This tool is for anyone who needs the numbers out of a document and into a spreadsheet: accountants rebuilding statements, analysts pulling figures from reports, researchers collecting data from papers, and operations teams digitizing printed forms. Instead of retyping rows by hand, you upload the file and download a CSV you can open in Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets.

Because table extraction runs on the premium AI tier, OCR.chat handles bordered and borderless tables, multi-column layouts, and merged headers, and it never silently drops a cell. You review the detected table next to your original with low-confidence values flagged, so the spreadsheet you download is one you can actually trust.

How to table extractor

1
Upload the file with tables
Drop in a PDF or image, or paste a screenshot of the table you want to capture.
2
Detect the tables
The premium AI engine finds each table on the page and reconstructs its rows, columns, and headers.
3
Check the structured result
Review the rebuilt table beside your original, with any uncertain cells flagged for a quick look.
4
Export to CSV or Markdown
Download a CSV to open in Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets, or copy a Markdown table for docs and notes.

Common uses

  • Pull figures from financial statements and reports into a spreadsheet for accounting and bookkeeping.
  • Digitize printed forms, logs, and inventory sheets into CSV without retyping every row.
  • Collect data tables from research papers and PDFs for analysis in Excel, Sheets, or pandas.
  • Convert price lists, catalogs, and rate cards into structured data for import into other systems.
  • Turn scanned invoices and order tables into rows you can total and reconcile.
  • Capture survey results and lab data from images into clean CSV for further processing.

Frequently asked questions

The premium AI engine is built for tables and reliably keeps columns and rows aligned, including headers. Each detected table is shown next to your original with low-confidence cells flagged so you can correct anything before exporting.

You can export real CSV for spreadsheets or Markdown tables for docs and notes. CSV opens directly in Excel, Numbers, and Google Sheets, and JSON is available for programmatic use.

Columns stay aligned. The tool exports a genuine table structure rather than spacing out plain text, so the cells land in the right rows and columns and nothing is silently dropped.

Yes. Multi-page PDFs are processed page by page and the tables from each page are extracted, so a long table split across pages comes through as continuous rows you can stack in your spreadsheet.

Both. The AI engine detects tables by structure, so it captures fully bordered tables, borderless tables held together by spacing, and tables with merged or multi-line headers.

Upload PDF or PNG, JPG, WEBP, GIF, BMP, and TIFF images, in over 100 languages. Numbers, symbols, and foreign text are transcribed exactly as written and never auto-translated.

The AI engine recognizes a merged cell and keeps its value tied to the rows or columns it spans, rather than smearing it across unrelated cells. The detected layout is shown next to your original so you can confirm a spanning header or grouped row landed where you expect.

Values are transcribed exactly as they appear, including decimals, thousands separators, currency symbols, and negatives. The CSV preserves them faithfully so your spreadsheet reads them as numbers; the tool does not reformat or round your figures.

Each table on the page is detected on its own, so a sheet with two or three distinct tables comes back as separate structured results you can export individually instead of being mashed into one grid.

Yes. Larger and multi-file jobs run in the background, and paid plans from $5/mo include batch processing so you can queue a stack of PDFs or images and collect the CSVs together instead of doing them one at a time.

Yes. A REST API is available on paid plans, so you can POST a file and get structured CSV or JSON back from your own scripts and pipelines. Credits are counted as pages, the same as in the web app.

Table extraction is on the premium AI tier; you can try it free, and paid plans from $5/mo add more pages, batch processing, and API access. Your files are processed for OCR only, deleted automatically afterward, and never sold or shared.

Use this via the API

Run this tool programmatically with a single POST. Authenticate with the API token from your account page.

curl -X POST https://ocr.chat/api/v1/ocr/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -F "file=@your-file.png" \
  -F "tool=extract-tables"

Files of 5 pages or fewer return the result inline; otherwise poll the job, then download it as csv:

curl -L "https://ocr.chat/api/v1/ocr/JOB_UUID/download/?format=csv" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" -o result.csv
Read the API docs →

More OCR tools

🖼️ Image to Text 📄 PDF to Text 📝 PDF to Word 🗎 Image to Word ⬇️ PDF to Markdown 🔍 Searchable PDF ✍️ Handwriting to Text ➗ Math to LaTeX 🧾 Receipt Scanner 💳 Invoice OCR 🧩 Document to JSON 🌍 Translate a Document 🔤 Word to Text 📃 Word to PDF 📈 PDF to Excel 🧮 Image to Excel 🌐 Image Translator 👁️ Describe Image ♿ Alt Text Generator 💬 Chat with PDF 🗨️ Chat with a Document
Rate this page
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
5.0/5 (0)

What could we improve? Your feedback helps us fix issues.