Convert a scanned PDF table into a real spreadsheet

Yes. The table is rebuilt as a spreadsheet with one value per cell, not pasted in as a picture. You can sort it, total it and chart it straight away.

Yes, always. Every number here came from reading a picture of a page, and a smudged 3 can be read as an 8. Recognition is very good and it is not a guarantee — check the totals before you rely on them.

No. Every PDF is checked first and text recognition runs by itself when there is no text layer. For a spreadsheet it also runs whenever the export would otherwise stall on a page too sparse to read.

No, and this is worth knowing before you start. A spreadsheet is the end of the line for us: we can convert to it, but we cannot then translate or rewrite it for you. If you want to work on the content as well, convert to Word instead and go to Excel last.

Because every page is read as an image before the spreadsheet is built. That is real work, and it is the reason a scan takes longer than a PDF that already has text in it.

A straight, high-resolution scan with the ruled lines still visible. The lines are what tells the columns apart, so a faint or skewed scan loses column structure before it loses the digits.

Up to 10 MB per file. Documents longer than 20 pages are processed up to their first 20 pages — 100 on a paying account — and the result tells you when that limit was applied.

Ordinary prose comes across as rows of text rather than being thrown away. If your PDF is mostly writing with one table in it, converting to Word will read better.

No. There is no watermark on a converted file at any account level.

No. Your first conversion runs without signing up.