PDF to Excel Converter Command Line
With Okdo PDF to Excel Converter Command Line you can turn PDF into Excel without leaving your desktop. Process whole folders in one batch. Everything runs offline, so your files never leave your computer, and you don't need Adobe Acrobat or Reader to get clean, layout-accurate results. In addition, it can password-protect or unlock PDFs.

Key features
Advanced capabilities
- ✓Convert PDF to Microsoft Excel (.XLS, .XLSX, .XLSM) document.
- ✓No third-party PDF software required.
- ✓Supports MS-Office 2007 and later files.
- ✓Batch-convert source files using wildcard characters, e.g. *.pdf, aa*.pdf, bb??.pdf.
- ✓There are three ways to specify the files to convert.
- ✓Specify the source file path to convert.
- ✓Load source file paths from a text file.
- ✓Specify a source folder.
- ✓Load files from subfolders.
- ✓Option to customize directory for saving converted files.
- ✓Create a subfolder within the target folder.
- ✓Save output files to the same folder as the source.
- ✓Set the output file name to match the source file.
- ✓Convert password encrypted PDF to Excel.
- ✓Convert PDF pages in specified page range.
- ✓Convert each page of PDF into one Excel sheet accordingly.
- ✓Convert all pages of PDF into one single Excel sheet.
- ✓Rename the output file if it already exists, or overwrite it.
- ✓Preview the output folder after conversion.
- ✓Several conversion options are available for a better result.
Supported formats
➡️ Input
Adobe
PDF *.pdf
⬅️ Output
MS
Excel
Excel (*.xls, *.xlsx, *.xlsm)
Command-line usage
Okdo PDF to Excel Converter Command Line runs from a DOS command prompt. Change to the installation folder, then invoke the executable using the syntax below.
converter.exe [options] <source file> <target file>Options
Why convert with Okdo
What customers say
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