Are the cells separated correctly?

PDF to Excel

Turn tables in a PDF into a real Excel spreadsheet.

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Detect tables in a PDF and export them as a real .xlsx spreadsheet with cells laid out, not misaligned text, ready for Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, detected tables are written to real spreadsheet cells, not a single text blob.

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.pdf" \
  -F "tool=pdf-to-excel"

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

curl -L "https://ocr.chat/api/v1/ocr/JOB_UUID/download/?format=xlsx" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" -o result.xlsx

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