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That one website that pulls a table out of a PDF and into Excel

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Tabula lets you draw a box around a table in a PDF and exports it as CSV or Excel. It is free and open source and runs on your own computer, so nothing is uploaded; it only works on text-based PDFs, not scans.

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iLovePDF PDF to Excel ilovepdf.com PDF to Excel in the browser, with scan OCR Free tierSignup optional Link checked Oct 9
PDFTables pdftables.com Paid PDF table converter with an API PaidSignup required Link checked Oct 9

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