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Select a PDF document that contains selectable text.
PDF to CSV Online
Use NewTools to convert selectable PDF text to CSV directly in your browser. Best-effort conversion for selectable text; scanned PDFs need OCR and are not supported.
Secure PDF to CSV Extractor. Easily pull text and tabular data from your PDF files into a CSV format. Processing everything locally ensures your sensitive data remains on your device.
No installation
Fast processing
Browser friendly
Privacy-aware
Features
Selectable Text Extraction: Reads standard selectable text from digital PDFs and splits columns based on white space or tabs.
Local Processing: Your PDF is parsed locally using the pdf.js library. The document is never uploaded to any server.
Best-Effort Formatting: Automatically attempts to align data into CSV rows and columns for quick spreadsheet import.
How It Works
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Step 2
Wait while your browser extracts and formats the text.
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Step 3
Download the resulting .csv file and open it in a spreadsheet editor.
Common Use Cases
Data Recovery
Quickly extract plain-text tables or lists from a digital PDF report into Excel or Google Sheets.
Financial Statement Parsing
Pull numbers and descriptions from cleanly formatted, vector-based PDF invoices.
Tips & Best Practices
Tip 1
This tool relies on spacing. Complex tables may require manual cleanup in Excel after extraction.
Tip 2
Scanned PDFs (images of text) are not supported because this tool does not use OCR.
PDF to CSV
How the extraction works
This tool uses a client-side library to read the text layer of your PDF. It looks for natural line breaks and large gaps of white space (or tabs) to guess where columns begin and end, formatting the result as comma-separated values.
Important Limitations
Because this tool operates completely offline without heavy AI models, it cannot perfectly reconstruct complex table borders or read scanned images. Expect to perform some manual cleanup in your spreadsheet software.