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Construction PDF to Excel converter

Estimates, invoices, bid tabs and cost reports arrive as PDFs. Drop one here and get a spreadsheet back: the table is rebuilt from the positions of the words, amounts become numbers you can add up, and scanned pages are read with OCR — all in your browser.

Free, no sign-upNothing uploaded — runs in your browserScanned PDFs read with OCRReal .xlsx with numbers and dates
Try: Sample estimateScanned estimate (OCR)Quantity takeoffBid tabulationSub quote (faxed)

How it works

  1. Drop a PDF on the box, or choose one.
  2. Scanned pages are detected and read with OCR automatically.
  3. Check the preview — each page is a tab.
  4. Download Excel, a CSV, or copy and paste straight into a sheet.

An example

The sample estimate — 15 cost lines in labor, material, subcontract and equipment sections, with subtotals and markups — becomes a six-column sheet: code, description, unit, quantity, unit cost, amount. Every amount, from the $3,520,001 direct cost to the $3,858,000 bid, arrives as a real number, so formulas work the moment it opens.
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Questions

Is my PDF uploaded?

No. The PDF is read in your browser with pdf.js, and scanned pages with a copy of Tesseract OCR served from this site. Nothing is sent to a server.

Does it work on scanned PDFs?

Yes — pages with no text layer are read with OCR. Check the numbers afterwards: OCR on a clean scan is good, not perfect.

How does it find the columns?

A PDF has no table, only words at positions. The converter groups words on the same line into rows and uses the vertical strips of white space that run through the rows as column boundaries.

Does it check the numbers?

Yes. When a sheet has quantity, rate and amount columns, every line is checked (quantity × rate = amount), and every subtotal and total is checked against the lines above it — across pages. On a scan, that is what catches a misread digit.

What PDFs work best?

Tables exported from software — estimates, invoices, cost reports, bid tabs. Scans and faxes work too: pages are straightened and ruling lines removed before OCR. Merged cells and text wrapped across lines may need a quick tidy in Excel.

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