Turn PDFs into Excel spreadsheets automatically

Why PDF to Excel is harder than it looks

When you see a table in a PDF, your brain instantly recognizes rows, columns, and headers. But to a computer, there's no table there at all. Just text fragments positioned at specific coordinates. The PDF format was designed for printing, not editing.

That's why copying and pasting fails so badly. The text comes out jumbled, columns merge together, and numbers end up in the wrong cells. Even dedicated tools like Adobe Acrobat struggle because they're essentially guessing where one column ends and another begins.

How accurate extraction works

SendItSheets uses advanced document intelligence to understand structure, not just read characters. It recognizes patterns like "this is a line item description," "this is a unit price," and "this column header applies to these cells below."

For scanned documents, OCR extracts the text first, then the same structural analysis applies. The result is a clean spreadsheet where the data actually makes sense: numbers formatted as numbers, dates as dates, totals ready for your formulas.

What you can do after conversion

Once your data is in Excel, it's truly yours to work with. Sum columns of invoice amounts. Build pivot tables to analyze spending by vendor. Create charts from months of bank statements. Import directly into QuickBooks, Xero, or your ERP. The tedious manual entry is gone, and you jump straight to the analysis.