As the inventor of the PDF file format, Adobe makes sure that the Acrobat PDF to Excel converter tool creates a high-quality file you can work with on Mac or Windows. The Acrobat functionality transfers your PDF data and content right into an editable Excel spreadsheet, where you can edit the rows and columns.

You can also try Adobe Acrobat Pro for free for seven days to convert images like PNG files, edit PDFs with optical character recognition (OCR technology), add annotations, split PDFs, reduce file sizes, convert Microsoft 365 files to PDF and export PDFs to Microsoft Word documents and PowerPoint presentations.

• XLS and XLSX are file extensions used by Microsoft Excel.
• XLS is an older file format used in Microsoft Excel 2003 and earlier.
• XLSX was introduced in Microsoft Excel 2007 and is based on the Open XML (Extensible Markup Language) standard.
• To open, edit, and save XLSX files in Microsoft Excel 2003 or earlier, you need to download the free Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack.

It’s easy to open converted files. After the PDF to Excel conversion, download your new workbook. Then launch Microsoft Excel, choose Open from the File menu and select the converted file. You can also sign in to Acrobat online services to save your converted Excel document to Adobe cloud storage for quick online access from anywhere or to edit it using Microsoft Excel for the web.