PDF to Excel#

What It Does#

Extracts tables and text from a PDF into an Excel workbook. Each page becomes a separate sheet. Uses PyMuPDF table detection with fallback to line-by-line text extraction.

When to Use#

• Extract tabular data from PDF invoices or reports
• Convert PDF financial statements to Excel
• Pull structured data from PDF tables

Required Inputs#

Provide one of:

• url — public URL to a PDF
• file — base64-encoded PDF
• Multipart upload with file field

Authentication#

Send your API key in the CLIENT-API-KEY header.

Get your free API key at https://pdfapihub.com. Full API documentation is available at https://pdfapihub.com/docs.

Use Cases#

• Invoice Data Extraction — Pull line items and totals from PDF invoices into Excel for accounting
• Financial Statement Analysis — Convert PDF bank statements to Excel for analysis and reconciliation
• Report Data Mining — Extract tabular data from PDF reports for further processing
• Procurement — Convert PDF purchase orders into spreadsheets for tracking
• Tax Preparation — Extract financial data from PDF tax documents into Excel

Aliases#

• /v1/convert/pdf/excel is an alias

Example Usage#

bash

curl -X POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/convert/pdf/xlsx \
  -H "CLIENT-API-KEY: your_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "url": "https://pdfapihub.com/sample-pdfinvoice-with-image.pdf", "output": "url" }'