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PDF Table Extractor: PDF to Excel & CSV Converter with OCR

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Use this to extract every table from PDF files into Excel and CSV (PDF to Excel converter, OCR for scans). Input: PDF URLs or uploads plus optional page ranges. Output: one row per table with pages, header, row and column counts and cell data, plus Excel and CSV files.

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Panda Federation

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PDF URLs

pdfUrls

Optional

Direct links to PDF files. Google Drive and Dropbox share links are converted to direct downloads automatically. Up to 150 MB per file.

Type:array

Upload PDFs

pdfFiles

Optional

Or upload PDFs from your computer. They are stored in a key-value store in your Apify account.

Type:array

Key-value store with PDFs

pdfStore

Optional

Optional. Pick a key-value store in your account that holds PDFs. The Actor gets read access to this store only.

Type:string

Record keys in that store

pdfStoreKeys

Optional

Optional. Keys of the PDFs to process (e.g. REPORT.pdf). Leave empty to process every PDF record in the store (up to 50).

Type:array

Example:

[
  "REPORT.pdf"
]

Pages

pages

Optional

Optional. Only these pages, e.g. 1-5, 8, 12-end. Leave empty for all pages (up to the page limit below).

Type:string

Example:

1-5, 8, 12-end

Maximum pages per PDF

maxPagesPerPdf

Optional

Caps cost and run time on very long documents. You pay per page analysed. Whole number, 1 to 2,000 pages; default 100.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:2000

Default:100

Table detection

detection

Optional

Auto tries ruled-grid detection first and switches to whitespace (column alignment) detection when that recovers more of the table. Pick one mode if you know your PDF's style.

Type:string

Default:auto

Options:

autolatticestream

Header row

headerDetection

Optional

Auto finds header rows above the first data row (multi-line headers are joined). First row = always use row 1. None = generic Column 1, Column 2… names.

Type:string

Default:auto

Options:

autofirstRownone

Merge wrapped rows

mergeWrappedRows

Optional

Join labels that wrap onto a second line back into one row, so numbers stay on the right line. Default: on.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Join tables that continue on the next page

mergeAcrossPages

Optional

When a table carries on over a page break with the same columns, output it as one table with a page range. Default: on.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Numbers as numbers in Excel

numbersAsNumbers

Optional

Write 1,234 / (56) / 4.2% as real Excel numbers (parentheses = negative) so you can sum and chart them. CSV and dataset keep the text exactly as printed. Default: on.

Type:boolean

Default:true

OCR scanned pages (beta)

ocrScannedPages

Optional

Pages with no text layer (scans, photos) are always detected. Off (default): they are skipped, listed in SUMMARY and on the Index sheet, and cost nothing. On: they are read with Tesseract OCR (English) and their tables are marked 'verify'. OCR is slow (about a minute per page) and can misread digits and dot leaders, so use it for clean scans and check the numbers.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Maximum OCR pages per PDF

maxOcrPagesPerPdf

Optional

OCR has its own cap because it is slow and priced per page. Extra scanned pages are flagged, not charged. Whole number, 0 to 100 pages; default 10.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:100

Default:10

PDF password

pdfPassword

Optional

Optional. Only for password-protected PDFs you are allowed to open.

Type:string

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