About the PDF to Excel converter
Make in Bulk's PDF to Excel converter turns the tables inside PDF files into a structured spreadsheet: every value in its own cell, header rows picked out, and numbers and dates stored as real values. It was built for everyday paperwork – bank statements, invoices, reports and price lists – and for people who need to convert more than one or two files without creating an account or paying for a subscription.
What we promise
- Free, without catches. No sign-up, no limit on files or pages, no watermark and no paid tier.
- Your files stay with you. PDFs are opened and converted in your browser. We never receive them or the spreadsheets made from them.
- Honest results. The converter reports pages it recognises as scanned instead of guessing at them, keeps codes and other values it can't be sure of exactly as written, tells you when it had to guess whether a date such as 03/04/2024 is day or month first (with a one-click switch), notes the page headers and footers it keeps out of a table, and shows you each table before you download (the first 200 rows of a long sheet).
How the site is paid for
The site shows advertising in the articles on its pages. Ads are kept away from the converter itself and from the download buttons. Nothing is sold. The privacy policy explains how advertising works here and how to control personalised ads.
Built with open-source software
Three well-established open-source libraries do the heavy lifting. They are downloaded from the jsDelivr public CDN at exact versions and checked with Subresource Integrity, so your browser rejects them if even one byte has changed:
- PDF.js by Mozilla (Apache 2.0 licence) – reading the text and lines in each PDF page.
- ExcelJS (MIT licence) – writing the Excel workbook.
- JSZip (MIT licence) – bundling several files into one ZIP download.
Finding the tables, joining pages, recognising headers and working out numbers and dates is our own code, written to run entirely on your device.
Contact
Found a PDF that doesn't convert well, or have a suggestion? Email hello@makeinbulk.com. Please don't send statements or other documents containing personal data; a description of the layout, or a copy with made-up values, is enough to reproduce most problems.