Tablizer

Convert PDF to PNG Online

Paste a PDF table below, edit it if you need to, and get PNG back. The conversion runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded, there is no size limit and there is no signup.

From

The only part of this site that uses a server. The address is sent to it so the page can be fetched, because a browser is not allowed to fetch someone else's page itself. Your own files are never involved.

Nothing here is uploaded. The parsing happens on this page.
Edit
Paste or upload something above and it will appear here.
ToDataMarkupDocumentsCodeSchemasImages

The output will appear here once there is a table to convert.

What PDF is

PDF describes a page: glyphs at coordinates, not rows and columns. A table in a PDF is a visual arrangement, not a data structure.

Reports, invoices, statements and anything sent to be read rather than processed.

What PNG is

A lossless image format. Text and thin lines stay exactly as drawn, which is what a table is made of.

Slides, chat messages, issue trackers, and anywhere a table has to travel as a picture rather than as data.

What changes when you convert PDF to PNG

Every character in a text-based PDF carries its position on the page. Characters sharing a baseline are one row. Columns are found from the vertical strips no character ever occupies, which is why extraction works cleanly on a document laid out with spacing and badly on one laid out with ruled lines. A header repeated at the top of each page is detected and dropped rather than landing in the middle of the data.

The table is drawn from the data onto a canvas rather than captured from the page, so the whole thing comes out however long it is and however much of it is on screen. Column widths are measured from the content, alternating rows are shaded, and the scale is adjustable so a table for a slide or a print layout can be drawn at two or three times the size.

What carries over from PDF to PNG

Both formats show a table rather than hold one, so this changes how the page looks and not what can be read back out of it.

Neither format holds the table as data. PDF describes a page as glyphs at coordinates, so a table in a PDF is a visual arrangement rather than a structure. PNG holds a lossless picture of a table, in which the values exist only as pixels once it is written. So this is one rendering of the table becoming another, and the values are equally out of reach on both sides of it.

Questions

How do I convert PDF to PNG?

Paste your PDF into the box above or drop the file onto it. Check the table in the grid, then copy or download the PNG from the output panel. It takes one step and the data never leaves your browser.

Can I get my table back out of the PDF?

Out of one made here, yes, because the text is real text. Out of a scanned document, no. A scan is an image of a page, and pulling data from it needs optical character recognition, which is a different job with a different failure rate.

Can I get the data back out of a PNG of a table?

Not without optical character recognition, which is a different kind of software with a different failure rate. An image of a table is pixels. If anyone downstream might want to sort or sum the numbers, send the table as well as the picture.

Can I convert the PNG back to PDF afterwards?

Not mechanically. PNG keeps how the table looks, not what it held, so going back means reading the values off the page again. Keep the PDF if you will need it.

Is there a limit on file size?

No. The work happens on your own machine, so the limit is your machine's memory rather than an upload cap. A file with tens of thousands of rows converts in a second or two.

Is my data uploaded anywhere?

No. The parsing and generating are done by JavaScript running on this page. You can watch the network tab while you convert and see that nothing is sent.

Related conversions