Copying data from PDF tables into spreadsheets is one of the most tedious tasks in any office. You highlight a row, paste it into Excel, fix the formatting, repeat — for every single table on every single page. We just launched Table Extraction, powered by Google Document AI, to solve this problem once and for all.
How It Works
The process is straightforward — no configuration, no setup, no learning curve:
- Upload a PDF. Drag and drop or click to select the file containing the tables you need.
- AI detects all tables. Google Document AI's Form Parser scans every page and identifies table structures — rows, columns, headers, and cell boundaries.
- Download a formatted Excel file. Each detected table gets its own sheet in the output workbook. Headers are styled and bold, columns are auto-sized, and data types are preserved where possible.
The entire process takes seconds, even for multi-page documents. You upload one file and get back one clean Excel workbook ready to use.
What Types of Tables Work Best
Table Extraction works with a wide range of document types, but certain formats produce the best results:
- Financial statements. Balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow tables with clearly defined rows and columns extract with high accuracy.
- Invoices with line items. Product descriptions, quantities, unit prices, and totals are parsed into separate columns automatically.
- Scientific data tables. Research papers with experimental results, statistical summaries, and measurement data work well, especially when tables have visible borders.
- Government reports with statistics. Census data, economic indicators, and regulatory filings that use structured tabular formats are ideal candidates.
The general rule: if a table has clear structure with distinct rows and columns, the AI will detect and extract it accurately. Heavily merged cells or unconventional layouts may require manual cleanup.
Pricing and Limits
Table Extraction is available on our Business and Enterprise plans:
- Business plan ($13.99/month): 200 pages per month. Each page in your uploaded PDF counts as one page toward your monthly limit, regardless of how many tables appear on that page.
- Enterprise plan ($49.99/month): 2,000 pages per month. Designed for teams that process large volumes of financial, legal, or scientific documents regularly.
Your page count resets on the first day of each billing cycle. You can track your remaining pages from your dashboard at any time.
Tips for Best Results
Follow these tips to get the cleanest possible output from Table Extraction:
- Use OCR first if working with scanned PDFs. If your PDF was created from a scan or photograph, run it through our OCR Scanner before extracting tables. This converts the image-based text into machine-readable text, which dramatically improves detection accuracy.
- Clean, bordered tables extract most accurately. Tables with visible gridlines and clear header rows produce the best results. If your source document has borderless tables with only whitespace alignment, results may vary.
- Multi-page tables are supported. If a single table spans across multiple pages, the AI will detect the continuation and attempt to combine the data into one cohesive table in the output spreadsheet.
Try It Now
Head over to the Table Extraction tool to try it with your own PDF. If you are not yet on a Business or Enterprise plan, visit our pricing page to upgrade.
Stop copying tables by hand. Let the AI do the work — and get back to the analysis that actually matters.