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PDF to CSV. No account needed.
Upload any PDF, text-based or scanned. AI reads every table across every page and returns structured, editable CSV data. One file at a time, up to 100 pages.
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Convert a PDF to CSV
The AI finds tables across pages, preserves headers, and returns clean rows and columns. Reliable on clean tables; check the output before you rely on it.
What you get
Ungated, and it deletes your file.
This tool is the front door to Mammoth. Use it on its own, or carry the extracted data into a pipeline that runs every week.
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Upload and extract straight away. Your file is processed and deleted within an hour.
Reliable on clean tables
Tables, receipts and printed reports come back as usable rows. Messy scans and mixed formats usually work too — have a look at the output before you rely on it.
One extractor, every format
The same engine reads images, PDFs and statements. Pick whichever page matches the file in front of you.
Questions people ask
Can Adobe Acrobat do this?
Yes, and if you already pay for Acrobat it is the shortest route for a clean, text-based table on a single page — All Tools > Export a PDF, then choose CSV. It is worth saying because Adobe ranks on this search for exactly that reason. Where it stops helping is a scan with no text layer behind it, and a table that continues across pages, which Acrobat tends to hand back as separate fragments.
What is the best PDF to CSV converter?
It depends what happens next, and the honest answer is that several are fine. If you want a one-off file format swap, Zamzar and Convertio do that and have done for years; Tabula is free and open source, which is why accountants keep recommending it on Reddit. What none of them do is the step after — joining the extracted rows to your other data, applying the same fixes next month, and sending the result somewhere on a schedule. That is what this one is the front door to.
It is a bank statement.
Use the bank statement converter instead. It is the same extractor pointed at the same kind of file, but the page is written for that job — long transaction tables, statements that run to dozens of pages, and the question of whether to just download CSV from your bank instead.
Does it work on a scanned PDF?
Yes. A text-based PDF already has the characters in it and is the easier case; a scan has to be read visually first. Both work. A clean flatbed scan reads better than a photograph of a page taken at an angle, which is true of every tool that does this and worth knowing before you judge the output.
My table runs across dozens of pages. Do I get all of it?
Yes — the extractor reads the table on every page and keeps the headers, rather than returning page one and stopping. One file at a time, up to 100 pages.
What if the PDF is not really a table?
Then this is the wrong tool and it will tell you so quickly. It looks for tabular structure — rows, columns, headers. A report that is mostly prose with a figure quoted in a sentence has nothing to extract into rows, and no converter on this page of results will do better with it.
I have to do this every week.
Then the conversion is the smallest part of your problem. Doing it by hand every week means repeating the same corrections every week, and nobody can tell you afterwards which version was right. Bringing the extraction into Mammoth records the preparation once and re-runs it — same fixes, same joins, on a schedule, with the result delivered rather than fetched.
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Use the image converterPhotograph a table, a receipt, or a printed report. AI reads it and returns structured, editable CSV data.Use the bank statement converterUpload a PDF statement and get the transactions back as rows you can reconcile against, sort and total.Free toolsThe rest of the ungated tools.PricingWhat the platform costs once you want it on a schedule.
Extracting once is useful. Extracting every week is the point.
Bring the output into Mammoth to clean it, join it to everything else, and have it delivered on a schedule.
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