Pull a table out of a PDF and into Excel

Open a PDF on iPhone or iPad, read one table into rows and columns, and export Excel.

This path starts from a PDF that contains a table and ends at Excel cells. Opening the PDF so you can read it is not the same as extracting the table. A photograph of paper is the other source.

Read the table

Get the PDF onto the iPhone or iPad. Tablune is coming soon, for iOS 15.6 or later, with a 7-day trial.
Open the PDF and choose the table.
Check the rows and columns against the page.
Export Excel when you trust the cells.

This does not turn the whole PDF into a spreadsheet. It reads the table. Pages that are only paragraphs stay pages.