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PDF to Google Sheets

Typed columns in Sheets in two steps: export from Extract, import into Sheets.

There is no direct “push this PDF straight into a Google Sheet” button here yet, and we’d rather tell you that plainly than oversell a one-click feature that doesn’t exist. What Convertitive Extract does today is the part that’s genuinely hard: reading a PDF table semantically — by column meaning, not by ruled-line position — so dates, amounts, and multi-line descriptions come out as correctly typed cells instead of a jumble of misaligned text. From there, getting the result into Google Sheets is a two-step, thirty-second process: export the typed XLSX (or CSV) from Extract, then use Sheets’ File → Import (or just drag the file onto the Sheets file picker) to pull it in with formatting intact. A direct OAuth push into an open spreadsheet is on our roadmap — we’re not committing to a date for it, since we’d rather ship it right than ship it fast.

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Get a PDF table ready for Google Sheets

Upload a statement, invoice, or receipt. Preview the extracted table free, sign in, then export XLSX or CSV to import into Sheets.

How to use

  1. Upload your PDF

    Drop a bank statement, invoice, receipt, or tabular PDF into Extract, scanned or digital.

  2. Preview the extracted table free

    Confirm the detected columns and rows look right before exporting anything.

  3. Sign in and export

    Sign in (free) to remove the preview watermark, then download the result as XLSX or CSV.

  4. Import into Google Sheets

    In Google Sheets, use File → Import → Upload and select the downloaded file, or drag it directly onto the Sheets home screen's file list. Sheets preserves the typed columns — numbers stay numbers, dates stay dates.

Frequently asked questions

Can Extract push data directly into an open Google Sheet?
Not yet. Today's workflow is export-then-import: download a typed XLSX or CSV from Extract, then bring it into Sheets with File → Import or a drag-and-drop upload. A direct OAuth-connected push into an existing spreadsheet is on our roadmap, but it isn't built yet, and we're not going to claim otherwise.
Does the import keep the typed numbers and dates?
Yes. Extract's XLSX export writes genuinely typed numeric and date cells, and Google Sheets reads XLSX formatting natively on import — so a column of amounts imports as numbers you can sum, not text.
Why not just use Sheets' own PDF or OCR import?
Google Sheets doesn't import PDFs directly at all — you'd need to convert first regardless. And generic OCR-to-table tools tend to split cells by ruled-line position, which breaks on merged cells and multi-line descriptions. Extract classifies each cell by meaning (date, amount, description) before export, which is what keeps the imported sheet clean.
Is this free?
Previewing the extracted table is free with no account. Signing in is also free and required to download the watermark-free file you'll import into Sheets.
Will a direct Google Sheets push be added?
It's on the roadmap. We haven't set a ship date, since a direct OAuth-authenticated write into a user's live spreadsheet needs to be built and tested carefully, not rushed out.

About

Why export-then-import beats a shaky direct integration

A direct push requires OAuth scopes into a user's Google account, a spreadsheet picker, and conflict handling for existing data in the target sheet — a meaningfully bigger surface than a file download. Until that's built properly, export-then-import gives you the same end state (typed data sitting in a Sheet) with a workflow that already works today and that doesn't ask for any Google account access.

What actually makes the imported data usable

The hard part was never the file format — CSV and XLSX are both natively readable by Sheets. The hard part is getting a PDF table's contents into that file correctly in the first place: identifying which text belongs to which column, joining multi-line cells instead of splitting them into phantom rows, and typing numbers so formulas work without cleanup. That's the extraction step Extract focuses on; the import into Sheets afterward is the easy part.

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