How to Convert PDF Image to Excel

Have an important image-based PDF report and now need to extract the data from PDF image to Excel? Thanks to OCR that has made it to be possible to convert PDF image to Excel. When you scan a document to save as PDF format file, then the content will be an image actually. However, some PDF converters fail to offer OCR when you need to convert PDF image to Excel spreadsheet. No worries, with PDFelement, as the best PDF image to Excel converter, you can easily convert PDF image to Excel.

4 Steps to Convert PDF Image to Excel

With PDFelement, you will have the easiest process for a successful conversion of PDF image to Excel. With the embedded OCR (Optical Character Recognition) feature, it will help you change the PDF image into an editable PDF and convert it to an editable excel.

Step 1. Import a PDF

After openning the program, drag and drop your scanned PDF image in the program to open or click the "Open File..." button to browse your PDF image to load.

Step 2. Enable OCR Function

Once you open the PDF document in it, you will get a notice bar to remind you to use OCR. You can either click the "Perform OCR" button in the notice bar, or go to the "Edit" tab and click the "OCR" button to perform OCR.

Step 3. OCR Settings

Then you will get a pop up OCR window, select the "Editable Text" option, click the "Change Languages" button to choose the correct language of your PDF content. You can also click the "Customize Pages" option to choose a page range of your PDF image to perform OCR only.

Step 4. Convert PDF Image to Excel

After performing OCR, the editable PDF document will be opened in the program automatically, you can save it first. Then go to the "Home > To Excel" option to convert it to Excel. You also have the option to choose the folder where you want to save the converted file. After converting, you can open the converted excel file to use or extract the data directly.

PDFelement is the best PDF image to Excel converter you can ever get to convert scanned image PDF to excel easily and quickly. There are also many other advantages of using it to convert PDF image into Excel.

Some of advantages are:

• It can work on different platforms like iOS, Mac and Windows 10/8/7 where most software or application struggle with more than one.
• It gives you a better resolution even when handling larger files in OCR.
• It has features to handle more than 100 languages through OCR.
• It has a better understanding of the symbols in the keyboard making it the best solution for PDF image to Excel conversions.
• Faster conversions and also conversion in batches is possible.

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Way 2: PDF Image to Excel with PDF Converter Pro

To convert PDF image to Excel, you shouldn't miss most professional tool: PDF Converter Pro. As one of the best PDF image to excel converters, it is designed for converting PDF to any other format you know with OCR function. Here is the PDF image to excel converter free download.

PDF Converter Pro is another PDF scanned image to excel converter with the technology of OCR, which enables you to convert PDF image to excel. With it, your work will just get simpler and easier.

Step 1. Load a PDF Image

After launching Wondershare PDF Converter Pro. Drag and drop your PDF image files into it. Batch conversion is also supported, so you can add a batch of PDF images at a time. After uploading scanned PDF files to the program, a pop-up dialog window will appear, asking you to select the correct language of your PDF documents. Check the box and click the Enable OCR button.

Step 2. Select Excel as the Output Format

In this PDF image to excel converter, select Microsoft Excel from the drop-down list as the output format in the right part of the program.

Step 3. Convert PDF Image to Excel

Click the Convert button to begin the conversion process of PDF image to Excel. Because of the running OCR, it might take a few minutes to finish the whole process. That's it! A few minutes later, you'll see the converted editable excel documents in the output folder. Cool, right? Download Wondershare PDF Converter Pro to convert PDF image to excel now!