Use this table extraction API from PDF to Excel and XLSX files for structured document data workflows. Ideal for invoices, statements, reports, and other cases where PDF tables need to become spreadsheet-ready output instead of manually rekeyed data.
Turn line items, ledger rows, tabular reports, and other PDF tables into clean XLSX output for finance teams, spreadsheet workflows, and downstream business analysis.
Use REST, Postman, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, PHP, or HTTP to automate PDF table extraction into Excel inside ETL jobs, accounting workflows, reporting systems, and document processing backends.
Save time and reduce human error by extracting PDF tables into spreadsheet-ready Excel output instead of retyping rows, columns, and line items by hand.
This example will convert your uploaded PDF file to an XLSX file.
Try it out in three steps
document.pdf to your project folder.result.xlsx to see the output.curl -X POST https://api.nutrient.io/build \ -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here" \ -o result.xlsx \ --fail \ -F file=@document.pdf \ -F instructions='{ "parts": [ { "file": "file" } ], "output": { "type": "xlsx" } }'curl -X POST https://api.nutrient.io/build ^ -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here" ^ -o result.xlsx ^ --fail ^ -F file=@document.pdf ^ -F instructions="{\"parts\": [{\"file\": \"file\"}], \"output\": {\"type\": \"xlsx\"}}"package com.example.pspdfkit;
import java.io.File;import java.io.IOException;import java.nio.file.FileSystems;import java.nio.file.Files;import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;
import org.json.JSONArray;import org.json.JSONObject;
import okhttp3.MediaType;import okhttp3.MultipartBody;import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;import okhttp3.Request;import okhttp3.RequestBody;import okhttp3.Response;
public final class PspdfkitApiExample { public static void main(final String[] args) throws IOException { final RequestBody body = new MultipartBody.Builder() .setType(MultipartBody.FORM) .addFormDataPart( "file", "document.pdf", RequestBody.create( MediaType.parse("application/pdf"), new File("document.pdf") ) ) .addFormDataPart( "instructions", new JSONObject() .put("parts", new JSONArray() .put(new JSONObject() .put("file", "file") ) ) .put("output", new JSONObject() .put("type", "xlsx") ).toString() ) .build();
final Request request = new Request.Builder() .url("https://api.nutrient.io/build") .method("POST", body) .addHeader("Authorization", "Bearer your_api_key_here") .build();
final OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient() .newBuilder() .build();
final Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
if (response.isSuccessful()) { Files.copy( response.body().byteStream(), FileSystems.getDefault().getPath("result.xlsx"), StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING ); } else { // Handle the error throw new IOException(response.body().string()); } }}using System;using System.IO;using System.Net;using RestSharp;
namespace PspdfkitApiDemo{ class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var client = new RestClient("https://api.nutrient.io/build");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST) .AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer your_api_key_here") .AddFile("file", "document.pdf") .AddParameter("instructions", new JsonObject { ["parts"] = new JsonArray { new JsonObject { ["file"] = "file" } }, ["output"] = new JsonObject { ["type"] = "xlsx" } }.ToString());
request.AdvancedResponseWriter = (responseStream, response) => { if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK) { using (responseStream) { using var outputFileWriter = File.OpenWrite("result.xlsx"); responseStream.CopyTo(outputFileWriter); } } else { var responseStreamReader = new StreamReader(responseStream); Console.Write(responseStreamReader.ReadToEnd()); } };
client.Execute(request); } }}// This code requires Node.js. Do not run this code directly in a web browser.
const axios = require('axios')const FormData = require('form-data')const fs = require('fs')
const formData = new FormData()formData.append('instructions', JSON.stringify({ parts: [ { file: "file" } ], output: { type: "xlsx" }}))formData.append('file', fs.createReadStream('document.pdf'))
;(async () => { try { const response = await axios.post('https://api.nutrient.io/build', formData, { headers: formData.getHeaders({ 'Authorization': 'Bearer your_api_key_here' }), responseType: "stream" })
response.data.pipe(fs.createWriteStream("result.xlsx")) } catch (e) { const errorString = await streamToString(e.response.data) console.log(errorString) }})()
function streamToString(stream) { const chunks = [] return new Promise((resolve, reject) => { stream.on("data", (chunk) => chunks.push(Buffer.from(chunk))) stream.on("error", (err) => reject(err)) stream.on("end", () => resolve(Buffer.concat(chunks).toString("utf8"))) })}import requestsimport json
response = requests.request( 'POST', 'https://api.nutrient.io/build', headers = { 'Authorization': 'Bearer your_api_key_here' }, files = { 'file': open('document.pdf', 'rb') }, data = { 'instructions': json.dumps({ 'parts': [ { 'file': 'file' } ], 'output': { 'type': 'xlsx' } }) }, stream = True)
if response.ok: with open('result.xlsx', 'wb') as fd: for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size=8096): fd.write(chunk)else: print(response.text) exit()<?php
$FileHandle = fopen('result.xlsx', 'w+');
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array( CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.nutrient.io/build', CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST', CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_ENCODING => '', CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => array( 'instructions' => '{ "parts": [ { "file": "file" } ], "output": { "type": "xlsx" } }', 'file' => new CURLFILE('document.pdf') ), CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array( 'Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here' ), CURLOPT_FILE => $FileHandle,));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
fclose($FileHandle);POST https://api.nutrient.io/build HTTP/1.1Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=--customboundaryAuthorization: Bearer your_api_key_here
--customboundaryContent-Disposition: form-data; name="instructions"Content-Type: application/json
{ "parts": [ { "file": "file" } ], "output": { "type": "xlsx" }}--customboundaryContent-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="document.pdf"Content-Type: application/pdf
(file data)--customboundary--Most common next steps
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Conversions return XLSX, the modern Excel workbook format, so results open directly in Excel and other spreadsheet tools that read XLSX.
Yes. Extracted tables keep their row and column structure in the XLSX output, so line items, ledger rows, and statement tables land in separate cells instead of arriving as one block of text.
Scanned and image-based PDFs need a text layer first. Pair the conversion with the Processor API’s OCR step — see the PDF OCR API — so text in page images is recognized before the tables are extracted.
Choose PDF-to-Excel when the output is headed for spreadsheets and finance or reporting workflows. Use the PDF-to-JSON API when another system consumes the data programmatically, or the table extraction API when one workflow needs several structured outputs — XLSX, CSV, JSON, or XML — from the same document.
Yes. PDF-to-Excel runs on the DWS Processor API, so a single workflow can chain steps — for example, running OCR on a scan and then extracting its tables to XLSX.
It runs on credit-based DWS Processor pricing. New accounts include 50 free credits per month, with no payment information required. Per-operation credit costs are listed on the Processor API pricing page.
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