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Pull clean tables from PDFs into Excel

Lido finds the tables in your PDFs and pulls them into clean Excel rows. Columns stay aligned, headers stay mapped, line items stay intact.

  • Preserves table structure. Multi-line cells, merged headers, and borderless tables all extract with columns intact.
  • Multi-table and multi-page. Documents with several tables across multiple pages extract every table, correctly separated.
  • Batch extraction. Drop a folder of PDFs and every table gets pulled into the same structured output.
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How table extraction works in Lido

1

Upload documents with tables

Drop PDFs, connect a folder, or pull from a shared drive. Lido identifies every table in every document automatically.

2

Extract table structure

Lido reads each table, identifies headers, aligns rows and columns, and preserves structure—including merged cells and multi-row entries.

3

Output to clean Excel or CSV

Each table becomes a clean worksheet. Multiple tables from one document land on separate sheets, ready for analysis or database import.

Try it free

See this workflow run on your documents

Upload a batch and get structured output in minutes.

Why PDF tables resist every free conversion tool

The reformatting nightmare

  • Free PDF-to-Excel tools dump tables as plain text with broken columns.
  • You spend more time cleaning converter output than you saved.
  • Scanned tables are worse—OCR reads characters but loses all structure.

Lido understands table structure, not just characters

  • Table structure—columns, rows, headers, spanning cells—is preserved in the output.
  • A 12-column financial statement exports as 12 clean Excel columns.
  • Output is ready to import directly with no reformatting or manual cleanup.

Lido vs free PDF-to-Excel converters

FeatureLidoFree converters
Preserves column alignment and row structure
Extracts tables from scanned (image) PDFs
Handles multi-table documents correctly
Batch-extract from hundreds of files
Multi-page tables with repeated headers
Convert a single file for free
Table extraction

A table that takes 20 minutes to copy by hand extracts in seconds

Process your first batch of financial statements or manifests and see the difference in output quality.

Common use cases

Finance

Extract financial statement tables for analysis

Extract income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow tables from annual reports into a workbook ready for financial modeling.

Accounts Payable

Extract vendor statement tables for reconciliation

Extract aging tables and open invoice lists from vendor statement PDFs into Excel for comparison against your AP ledger.

Logistics

Extract freight manifest and rate tables

Extract dense tables from rate sheets, freight bills, and customs manifests into structured spreadsheets for rate verification.

Operations

Extract inspection and compliance tables

Extract scoring tables from regulatory inspection reports and compliance scorecards into Excel for tracking and trending.

Stop reformatting PDF tables by hand

Try Lido free. Upload a PDF with tables and see clean Excel output in minutes.