2. Microsoft Excel’s Built-in Tool (Best for Data Cleaning)
If you find that the tables in your PDF are complex and other tools fail to extract them correctly, is an invaluable free and open-source tool. It runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux and is dedicated solely to extracting tables from PDFs. For example, Tabula can extract complex tables and is often used for converting bank statements or financial documents. To use it, you open the PDF in Tabula, use your mouse to draw a box around each table you want to extract, and then export them to an Excel file. Note that Tabula does not support OCR, so it will not work on scanned image PDFs. For example, Tabula can extract complex tables and
Select your file. A window will appear, listing all detected tables and pages. Select your file
: Open your file or drag it into the browser window. you open the PDF in Tabula