PDF to Excel for AP Teams

Built for AP managers and analysts processing 50, 200, or 1,000 vendor invoices a week. Convert any vendor format — digital, scanned, or photographed — into a clean Excel batch with vendor, invoice number, PO, line items, and totals. No template setup per vendor.

Process your weekly batch — free

AP automation tools weren't built for the long tail of vendors

Enterprise AP automation platforms (Coupa, Bill.com, Tipalti, Stampli) work great for the top 5% of vendors — the ones you use weekly, with consistent format, and can justify per-vendor template setup. But they break down on the 80%+ tail: the 200 vendors a mid-size company touches a few times a year, the one-off project consultants, the regional service providers, the freight forwarders billing in different currencies.

OCR-only tools dump messy text that still needs human cleanup. Email-parser tools assume invoices come from email; many arrive via vendor portals, fax, or even printed and re-scanned. AP teams end up doing manual entry on the long tail anyway — defeating the purpose of the platform investment.

Any vendor, any format, one workflow

PDFExcel reads any vendor's invoice format on the first upload — no template per vendor, no training data, no setup. Drop in a weekly batch (or a month's batch) as a ZIP and get back one Excel/CSV with vendor name, invoice number, invoice date, due date, PO number, subtotal, tax, total, and payment terms — one row per invoice. Add Line Items as a field and the model expands each invoice into per-line detail with description, quantity, unit price, and extended amount.

Use the export to do three-way match against your PO data and receiving records, batch-import into NetSuite / SAP / Sage / Microsoft D365 as draft bills for review, or feed into your existing AP automation platform as the long-tail data-entry layer. Built-in OCR handles scanned and photographed invoices automatically.

Fields you can pull

  • Vendor Name
  • Invoice Number
  • Invoice Date
  • Due Date
  • PO Number
  • Line Items (description, qty, unit price)
  • Subtotal
  • Tax / VAT
  • Total Due
  • Payment Terms
  • Currency

Trained on hundreds of thousands of real vendor invoices across every industry. The model knows the difference between a 'Bill To' and a 'Ship To' address, recognizes 'NET 30' as 30-day terms, and rejoins wrapped vendor names automatically.

Why AP teams pick PDFExcel for the long tail

Use it alongside your existing AP automation platform — let Coupa or Bill.com handle the top 5% of vendors with established templates, and let PDFExcel handle the long tail without manual entry.

  • No template setup per vendor. The 200+ long-tail vendors you only see a few times a year work the same as your top 5. No model training, no per-format configuration.
  • Free to evaluate, no credit card. 10 invoices/month free, forever. Plans from $69/month for 50, $199 for 200, $699 for 1,000. Pause/resume monthly with team volume.
  • No procurement cycle to start. Sign in with Google or Microsoft and process your first batch in under a minute. No SOW, no implementation timeline, no IT ticket.
  • Files deleted after processing. Vendor invoices are processed in memory and deleted immediately. Never stored, never shared, never used to train AI.

How it works

  1. Upload the AP queue. Drop in the weekly invoice batch as a ZIP — digital PDFs, scanned, photographed. Up to 20 MB per file.
  2. Pick AP fields. Vendor, Invoice #, PO, Date, Due Date, Total, plus Line Items if you need three-way match. Add Class or Department for cost-center coding.
  3. Import or three-way match. Excel/CSV — drop into NetSuite / SAP / Sage / D365 as draft bills, or join against PO data for three-way match before approval.

What a weekly AP batch looks like in Excel

One row per invoice with PO match-ready fields. Add Line Items for three-way match against receiving records.

# Vendor Invoice # Date Due Date PO # Subtotal Tax Total
1 Acme Office Supply INV-48217 03/04/2025 04/03/2025 PO-1184 $1,420.00 $113.60 $1,533.60
2 Northbridge Logistics NB-2025-441 03/06/2025 04/05/2025 PO-1186 $2,890.00 $0.00 $2,890.00
3 Cascade Print Co. CPC-9981 03/12/2025 04/11/2025 PO-1192 $315.50 $25.24 $340.74
4 Helix Software Inc. 2025-3-718 03/15/2025 04/14/2025 PO-1198 $4,200.00 $0.00 $4,200.00
5 Apex Freight Forwarders AFF-77612 03/18/2025 04/17/2025 PO-1201 $8,940.50 $0.00 $8,940.50

Built for AP teams of every size

AP managers at $50M-$500M companies handling weekly invoice batches, AP analysts at growth-stage SaaS, AP outsourcing firms running multi-client invoice processing, controllers doing month-end vendor accruals.

An AP manager at a 200-person SaaS

80 invoices per week across 60 vendors. Drops the weekly inbox into PDFExcel, exports to NetSuite-ready CSV, imports as draft bills for review. What used to take a full day now takes an hour.

A controller at a multi-entity holdco

AP runs across 4 portfolio companies. PDFExcel handles the long-tail vendors that don't justify per-vendor template setup in the centralized AP system. Long-tail processing time drops by 80%.

An AP outsourcing firm

Processes invoices for 30 client companies. Each client has a different ERP. PDFExcel exports to CSV that maps to whatever each client's system needs — one tool, every client.

Pricing

  • Free — 10 documents / month, no credit card
  • Starter $69/mo — 50 documents, $1.50 per extra
  • Pro $199/mo — 200 documents, $0.99 per extra
  • Business $699/mo — 1,000 documents, $0.59 per extra

Frequently asked questions

How does this compare to Bill.com or Coupa?

It complements them. Bill.com / Coupa / Tipalti / Stampli work great on your top 5% of vendors with established templates and approval workflows. PDFExcel handles the 80%+ long tail of vendors that don't justify per-vendor template setup. Use them together — let the platform do approval routing, let PDFExcel do extraction on the messy long tail.

Can it extract individual line items for three-way match?

Yes. Add 'Line Items' as a field and each invoice expands into per-line detail with description, quantity, unit price, and extended amount. Use that to join against PO line items and receiving records before approving the bill.

What about scanned or faxed invoices?

Built-in OCR runs automatically. Scanned vendor invoices, faxed copies, photos of paper invoices from the field — all work the same way as native PDFs from a vendor portal.

Does it integrate with NetSuite / SAP / Sage / D365?

We export CSVs that those systems import natively as draft bills. Most AP teams set up a saved import mapping per ERP and reuse it weekly. No direct API integration — by design, keeps the tool simple and avoids per-ERP integration risk.

Is invoice data handled securely?

Yes. Files are encrypted in transit, processed in memory, and permanently deleted as soon as extraction completes. Never stored, never shared with third parties, never used to train AI. SOC 2 controls in progress for vendor security review processes.

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