Docling
Free document reader started at IBM Research that finds the tables, headings and text in PDFs (including scans) and exports them to Markdown, JSON or spreadsheets, all on your own machine.
What you can do with it
- Bank statement tables into Excel
- Supplier price lists into a spreadsheet
- Scanned forms and reports into text an AI can read
Worth knowingSlow on a laptop CPU (10-18 seconds a page in our test) and it can miss tables that have no lines at all; check the result before trusting the numbers.
The full tutorial
01Install DoclingFREE02Turn your first PDF into a table you can readMEMBERS03Send every table to ExcelMEMBERS04Read scanned PDFs tooMEMBERS05Know what to spot-checkMEMBERS06Final project: sort your spending with a local AIMEMBERS
Pull the tables out of any PDF into Excel, with free AI that runs on your laptop · ~36 min · tested 2026-10-09
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