Why convert price lists and inventory reports to Excel?
Suppliers send price lists as PDFs. Warehouse and POS systems print stock reports as PDFs. The work, however, needs a spreadsheet: updating your own prices after a supplier change, comparing two suppliers item by item, importing a catalog into a shop system, or reconciling a physical count against the system stock. Typing hundreds of SKUs by hand is slow and error-prone.
DocToTable extracts the table directly. Each item code, description, unit, price and quantity goes into its own column.
How it works
- Upload the PDF with the converter above, by drag and drop or file picker. No account needed.
- The table is detected. Column boundaries are recognised from the document, not from a template. Scanned lists go through OCR.
- Preview and download. Check the rows in the browser, then export as Excel (XLSX) or CSV.
The first 2 pages in each of 3 finite browser previews convert free. Eligible accounts may receive 10 one-time page credits. Page packs and plans cover long catalogs; see pricing.
Common price list and inventory tasks
| Task | What the spreadsheet gives you |
|---|---|
| Supplier price update | Old and new prices per SKU, ready for a VLOOKUP against your own list |
| Supplier comparison | Two lists side by side, same item codes, different prices |
| Shop or POS import | SKU, description and price as CSV for the importer |
| Stock reconciliation | Counted quantities next to system quantities |
| Margin calculation | Purchase prices in one column, your sale prices in the next |
Tips for the best results
- Price columns: check decimal and thousands separators in the preview, especially on lists from another country. Excel can misinterpret "1.250,00" if the sheet locale differs.
- Grouped lists: catalogs often print a category heading between groups of items. Those headings appear as rows; filter or delete them after export.
- Scanned count sheets: scan at 300 DPI or higher. Handwritten quantities need a careful check.
- Long lists: the row count in the preview should match the item count printed on the list, if there is one.
- Import: export CSV when the shop or inventory importer expects plain text.
Related converters
Orders built from these lists come back as purchase orders and invoices, which the same converter handles. For plain text output, use the PDF to CSV converter. For scans, the OCR table extraction guide explains how to prepare the file. Uploaded files are processed to run the conversion; the privacy policy describes how they are handled.