PDF to JSON Converter

How to convert a PDF to JSON

1. Upload the PDF in the box above. The limit is 8MB per file.
2. Click Extract Tables. The converter looks for tables on every page.
3. Click Export to JSON. The JSON file downloads to your computer.

Ordinary tables convert at no cost and with no account. Uploaded files are deleted automatically after 24 hours.

What the JSON file looks like

Every table has a list of columns and a list of rows. Each row is an object, and the keys are the column names from the PDF.

{
  "tables": [
    {
      "table": 1,
      "columns": ["Item", "Qty", "Price"],
      "rows": [
        { "Item": "Paper", "Qty": "2", "Price": "1,250.00" },
        { "Item": "Toner", "Qty": "1", "Price": "89.90" }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

• Encoding is UTF-8.
• All values are strings, as printed in the PDF.
• If a table has no header row, the keys are Column 1, Column 2 and so on.
• Repeated column names get a number, for example Price_2, so no value is lost.

Reading the file in code

In Python, load the file with json.load and walk through data["tables"][0]["rows"]. In JavaScript, use JSON.parse and the same path.

Other formats

The same extraction also gives you Excel and CSV, so you can download all three. Need a different structure? Try PDF to XML or PDF to CSV. To go the other way, use JSON to PDF.

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