Free PDF to Excel Converter
Transform data-rich portable documents into spreadsheets you can edit
- Category PDF
- Program license Free
- Version 1.02
- Size 16.40 MB
- Works under: Windows XP
- Program available in English
- Program by Free PDF Solutions
As the name suggests, Free PDF to Excel Converter is a free, fast, and simple way to convert any PDF document into an Excel format.
Free PDF to Excel Converter is a Windows application that can convert PDF documents into Excel documents quickly. It works with any PDF document, and it doesn’t matter what a PDF contains or whether it was created by Adobe Acrobat or another program.
What this program is able to accomplish is due in large part to the way that Microsoft Office supports documents. Excel is much more than just a spreadsheet and can contain all manner of objects, including images and ActiveX Controls. The way that Free PDF to Excel Converter works is that each page in the PDF document is converted into an Excel sheet, and objects are embedded onto that sheet using the built-in embedding tools that Excel provides.
The process is quite fast, and this is true even when working with large PDF documents. Free PDF to Excel Converter also supports batches, and it takes advantage of multithreading and multiple cores to optimize the conversion of multiple PDF documents at a time. The result of a conversion is an Excel file that works in all Excel versions thanks to backward and forward compatibility. It would be nice to have control over the Excel version, but this can be done after the fact from within Excel fairly easily.
It’s important to note that Free PDF to Excel Converter provides no options for inclusion and exclusion. The program converts PDF documents in full and as is. The process can handle text, tables, graphs, and many other objects quite well. There’ll also be pages that are dumped onto an Excel sheet in an unstructured manner. Think of Free PDF to Excel Converter as a tool that provides the basis for an Excel spreadsheet from a PDF document, but don’t necessarily expect it to create a polished product. It may on some occasions, but this is less likely with complex PDF documents.
Pros
- Works with any PDF document
- Conversion process is very fast
- Supports batch processing
Cons
- No options for exclusion/inclusion
