What this tool does
- The split is SHOWN before it is saved: the grid you see is exactly the one the file will contain.
- Columns are looked for in the vertical gaps that nothing crosses — not in alignments, which would cut a column of amounts into three.
- When the split is probably wrong, the screen says so and counts the rows that do not look like the others, instead of letting you save a mess.
- Semicolon by default, and an encoding mark at the front: that is what it takes for Excel to open the file first time, accents included.
- A cell starting with “=” is defused: a spreadsheet runs formulas on opening, and that text came from a document written by somebody else.
What it does not do: The column split is a GUESS, and that is why it is shown to you. It works well on a printed table — a statement, an invoice, an inventory — and badly on free layout, a brochure, newspaper columns. It does not see merged cells, does not rejoin a row broken in two, and understands nothing of the table's rules: it reads text positions and nothing else. On a SCANNED document there is no text to position, so nothing to split — the screen says so rather than handing you an empty file.
Nothing is uploaded. Cut your network connection once this page has loaded: the tool keeps working. How to check it yourself.
The other tools
- Merge PDFs: Several files, one document, in the order you decide.
- Organize pages: Reorder, rotate, delete, duplicate: the whole plan.
- Extract pages: Pick pages, take them out into a document of their own.
- Delete pages: Remove pages while looking at them, and they do not survive under the file you get.