Convert PDF to Excel ​

Overview

ComPDFKit Conversion SDK supports converting PDF documents to Microsoft Excel format (.xlsx). By extracting, parsing, and importing data from PDF into Excel, users can further edit, analyze, or share Excel files. This feature helps increase productivity, reduce manual entry errors, and simplify complex document processing tasks.

Set the content options for Excel

When converting PDF files to Excel files, you need to pay attention to the settings of the following options, which will directly affect the content written to the Excel file.

• Content options:

  If you set the setExcelMode option, only the text content will be written to the Excel file (without containing the table content).

• Worksheet options:

Note

• In order to get better conversion effects, it is recommended to enable OCR or layout analysis.
• When you enable the OCR feature, the setContainOcrBg option will be invalid.

Sample

This sample demonstrates how to convert PDFs to XLSX files.

   CPDFConvert cpdfConvertExcel = new CPDFConvertExcel();
        CPDFConvertExcelOptions cpdfConvertExcelOptions = new CPDFConvertExcelOptions();
        cpdfConvertExcelOptions.setContainAnnot(true);
        cpdfConvertExcelOptions.setContainImg(true);
        cpdfConvertExcelOptions.setExcelMode(ExcelMode.PageTablesTextsOneSheet);
        cpdfConvertExcelOptions.setAllowOcr(true);
        String inputPath = rootDir + input_file + "excel.pdf";
        List<Integer> pageCounts = getPageCounts(cpdfConvertExcel.getPageCount(inputPath, password));
        ConvertResult convert = cpdfConvertExcel.convert(inputPath, rootDir + output_file, "", cpdfConvertExcelOptions, pageCounts, password, page -> {
        });