Convert any PDF to editable Excel

Yes — free with a watermark and 0 AI Deep Detect and no credit card. PDFs with a text layer convert directly; for scans, iFillPDF uses AI-based OCR to recognize content before spreadsheet review. Adobe Acrobat Pro charges $19.99/mo with OCR Pro-only, Smallpdf $9/mo with OCR Pro-only, iLovePDF Premium $7/mo, ABBYY FineReader PDF $199/yr perpetual, Nanonets pay-per-page above 500 pages/mo. Solid Documents PDF to Excel is desktop-only at $79.95 perpetual. On iFillPDF, Lifetime is $8.99 paid once, with AI Deep Detect in one-time credit packs.

Yes for clean scans and digitally generated PDFs where rows and columns map clearly. iFillPDF uses AI-based OCR to recognize content in scans, then rebuilds rows into .xlsx. As with every OCR table extractor, review columns, decimals and totals before using the spreadsheet for accounting or filing. Solid Documents and ABBYY FineReader handle scans similarly but require desktop install and per-seat licensing.

Yes — files are processed in Hetzner Falkenstein (eu-central-1) under EU TADPF and UK ICO frameworks, encrypted AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit, auto-purged within 24h. Per-cell metadata audit trail is clean enough for Sarbanes-Oxley §404 internal controls and IRS Pub 583 record-keeping. We never train AI on your PDFs, unlike most US-based competitors whose ToS reserve training rights. FRCP Rule 34 ESI production is supported via stable file hashes.

Cell values are extracted as ISO/IEC 29500 OOXML values — formulas embedded in source PDFs are converted to their computed result (PDFs do not store live formula expressions; only Excel-native .xlsx does). Merged cells and multi-row headers are detected by AI and rebuilt in the .xlsx grid. For full formula round-tripping, keep the original .xlsx; iFillPDF is the recovery tool when only the PDF is left.