This quick tutorial explains how to convert PDF to Excel using Python. It includes the environment configuration information, step-by-step algorithm, and Python code to convert PDF to Excel file format. It thoroughly covers all methods and properties which are relevant to this conversion.

Steps to Convert PDF to Excel in Python

1. Configure the environment for working with Aspose.PDF for Python via .NET API
2. Load the source PDF file using the Document class to render it to XLSX format
3. Create an object of ExcelSaveOptions class and set the required properties
4. Call the save method to export the input PDF file to XLSX Excel format

The steps above describe how using Python PDF to Excel conversion can be performed. In the first step, get the input PDF file from a MemoryStream or the disk. Subsequently, initialize an object of ExcelSaveOptions class and set the required properties for the output XLSX workbook.

Code to Convert PDF to XLSX Excel in Python

This code snippet demonstrates PDF to Excel Python-based conversion. You only need to make a couple of API calls like the source PDF document can easily be loaded with any constructor of the Document class. Next, you can set different preferences with ExcelSaveOptions class like setting the flag to insert a blank column at first using property insert_blank_column_at_first, setting the flag for uniform columns division using uniform_worksheets property, margin info, margin part style and converting it to XLSX file format with the save() method.

In this article, we have learned how using Python convert PDF to Excel file in XLS or XLSX format. However, if you want to take a look at PDF to XPS conversion, then refer to the tutorial on how to convert PDF to XPS using Python.