Stop copying tables manually. Upload any PDF and AI automatically detects every table, structures the data, and lets you download it as Excel or CSV — in under 30 seconds.
AI finds all tables and structures them into clean rows and columns. Preview in browser, then download as Excel or CSV.
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Claude AI doesn't just split on whitespace — it understands what a table means. Headers, data rows, totals rows, and nested columns are all handled correctly.
Extracts every table in the document in a single scan. If your PDF has 10 tables across 50 pages, you get all 10 with individual download buttons.
Most extractions complete in under 30 seconds. No queue, no wait, no account setup. Upload and download immediately.
PDFTash uses pdftotext -layout to extract text from your PDF while preserving the original column spacing and row structure. This layout-preserved text is then sent to Claude AI, which uses semantic understanding to identify table boundaries, parse headers from data rows, and structure everything into a clean rows-and-columns format — even for complex multi-column tables and headers spanning multiple rows.
Claude AI uses contextual understanding rather than pixel-perfect column detection. It identifies which value belongs to which column based on the surrounding data, labels, and structure — not just whitespace. This makes it significantly more robust than tools that rely purely on coordinate-based extraction.
Not directly. Scanned PDFs are images, not text — so pdftotext returns nothing. However, PDFTash will automatically attempt to extract tables from page images using Claude's vision capability as a fallback. For best results with scanned documents, use the OCR tool first, then extract tables from the resulting searchable PDF.
The tool currently processes the full PDF. If your document is large and you only need tables from specific pages, use the Split PDF tool first to extract those pages into a smaller file, then run the table extractor on it.
Each extracted table can be downloaded as CSV (opens in any spreadsheet app) or as a real Excel .xlsx file (opens in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, or LibreOffice Calc). Both downloads are generated client-side — no server processing required after the initial extraction.