Convert PDF to Excel — improved parser

This single-file tool extracts text from PDFs (using pdf.js) and intelligently groups tokens into columns and rows. It works best for digitally-created PDFs with selectable text. Scanned PDFs require OCR (see notes below).

Use adaptive (smarter) column detection Gap sensitivity 12 Show debug token overlay (for diagnosing layout)

About reliability

Designed for PDFs with selectable text (digital PDFs).
Scanned PDFs (images) won't extract text — you'll get a warning and need OCR.
Adjust Gap sensitivity if columns merge or split incorrectly.
If conversion still fails for a specific file, you can share the PDF and I can inspect it.

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Supports multi-page PDFs. Processing happens locally in your browser.

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Conversion notes

If output is a single column or text seems scrambled, try increasing the Gap sensitivity so the parser treats wider gaps as column breaks. If you need OCR for scanned PDFs, I can add server-side OCR using Tesseract or a cloud OCR API.