PDF to Excel for Legal & Law Firms

Built for law firms, in-house legal teams, paralegals, and litigation support. Convert discovery production PDFs, contract abstracts, court records, expert witness reports, and matter-billing statements into clean Excel for case management, due-diligence summaries, and exhibit preparation.

Try it on a discovery batch — free

Legal work is reading thousands of pages of PDFs

Litigation discovery production routinely runs 10,000-100,000 pages per matter. Bank statements, invoices, contracts, emails (printed to PDF), text-message exports, financial records, payroll data — all delivered as bates-numbered PDFs. Paralegals reviewing for relevance, building exhibit lists, and constructing chronologies face the same data-entry wall every accountant does, just at 100× volume.

M&A diligence stacks contracts (vendor agreements, customer agreements, leases, employment agreements, NDAs) into a virtual data room. Building the contract-summary spreadsheet (parties / term / rent / change-of-control provisions / assignability) is a junior associate's first month. In-house legal departments tracking contract obligations across 500+ active agreements have the same problem ongoing.

Discovery + contracts + court records, into structured exhibits

PDFExcel reads legal-context documents. Contracts extract with parties, effective date, term, key dates, payment terms, change-of-control / assignment provisions, and termination triggers. Bank statements and other financial discovery extract for chronology + transaction-level exhibit prep. Court records (judgments, orders, filings) extract case caption, parties, dates, and dispositive orders.

Bates-numbered PDFs preserve their bates range as audit-trail metadata in the export. Built-in OCR handles the scanned/paper documents that still arrive in older-matter discovery production. For contract-portfolio management, batch upload a virtual-data-room ZIP — get back a contract abstract spreadsheet in hours instead of weeks of associate time.

Fields you can pull

  • Document Type (Contract / Bank Statement / Court Record / Email / etc.)
  • Bates Number Range
  • Parties / Custodian / Author
  • Date / Effective Date
  • Counterparty
  • Key Terms (term, value, change-of-control, etc.)
  • Privileged Flag (when marked on document)
  • Source Filename + Page (audit trail)

The model knows that a bates-stamped page is a discovery-context document and that 'change of control' provisions need attention in M&A diligence. Trained on real legal documents — discovery batches, contract abstracts, court records, expert reports.

Why law firms and in-house legal pick PDFExcel

Most legal-tech tools focus on e-discovery review (Relativity, DISCO, Everlaw) and contract-lifecycle management (Ironclad, ContractPodAi). PDFExcel handles the document-to-structured-data layer that those tools assume happens elsewhere — the actual extraction work paralegals and junior associates do.

  • Knows contract + discovery patterns. Contract abstracts, bates-numbered discovery, court records, expert reports. Trained on real legal-context documents.
  • Free to start, no credit card. 10 documents free every month. Plans from $69/month for 50 docs — most small firms fit Pro at $199/month for active-matter document load.
  • Works alongside Relativity / Ironclad. CSV exports drop into e-discovery review tools and contract-lifecycle systems. No procurement cycle for evaluation.
  • Files deleted after processing. Legal documents are highly sensitive — files processed in memory and deleted immediately. Never stored, never shared, never used to train AI. For privileged-document workflows, contact us about Enterprise-tier security controls.

How it works

  1. Upload your legal documents. Discovery production batches, contract data-room ZIPs, court record bundles, expert witness reports. Bates-numbered scans + native PDFs both work.
  2. Pick your fields. Per document type — contract terms, transaction detail, claim amounts. Add Bates Number Range for audit-trail traceability.
  3. Build the exhibit / abstract. Excel/CSV with structured data. Drop into Relativity / DISCO / Everlaw for e-discovery review, or into the matter exhibit/abstract spreadsheet.

What a contract-abstract batch looks like in Excel

One row per contract with parties, term, value, and key provisions. Drop into the M&A diligence model or in-house contract repository.

# Doc Type Parties Effective Expiry Annual Value CoC Clause
1 VDR-001 Vendor Agreement Acme Inc / Northbridge LLC 06/01/2022 05/31/2027 $284,000 Yes — consent required
2 VDR-002 Customer Master Acme Inc / TechWave Corp 01/15/2023 01/14/2028 $1,840,000 No
3 VDR-003 Lease Acme Inc / 100 Broad LLC 09/01/2021 08/31/2031 $648,000 Yes — silent (no notice)
4 VDR-004 NDA Acme Inc / Helix Software 03/12/2024 03/12/2026
5 VDR-005 Employment Acme Inc / J. Patel (CEO) 07/01/2020 Salary + equity Yes — golden parachute

Built for law firms, in-house legal, and litigation support

Big-Law associates building diligence binders, mid-size firm partners managing matter portfolios, in-house legal counsel tracking contract obligations, paralegals handling discovery review and exhibit prep.

An M&A associate

Target's data room has 200 contracts. Convert via batch upload, get back a 200-row contract-abstract spreadsheet in 30 minutes vs 2 weeks of typing. Diligence summary memo writes itself.

A litigation paralegal

Discovery production includes 12 months of bates-numbered bank records. Convert to Excel, build a chronology of suspicious transactions for the deposition exhibit. Bates ranges preserved as audit trail.

An in-house legal counsel

Manages 500+ active vendor agreements at a mid-market company. Annual portfolio review converts all contracts to abstract Excel — flag upcoming expirations and change-of-control concerns in 2 days vs 2 months of manual review.

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

Does it work on bates-numbered discovery PDFs?

Yes. Bates ranges are preserved as audit-trail metadata in the export. Useful for traceability when an exhibit row needs to reference the original bates-stamped page.

Will it work alongside Relativity / DISCO / Everlaw?

Yes. We export CSVs that drop into e-discovery review tools' import paths. PDFExcel handles the structured-data extraction layer; the e-discovery tool handles the privilege/relevance review and production workflow.

Can it abstract contracts at portfolio scale?

Yes. Drop a virtual-data-room ZIP of 100-500 contracts, get back a single Excel with one row per contract — parties, term, value, key provisions. Useful for M&A diligence and in-house contract-portfolio reviews.

How is privileged-document handling managed?

Files are processed in memory and deleted immediately after extraction. Privileged-document handling for production workflows happens in your e-discovery tool (privilege log, redaction, etc.). For Enterprise-tier security workflows (firm-wide deployment), contact us about additional controls.

Is this really free?

10 documents per month, free, forever. Plans from $69/month for 50 docs. Most small firms fit Starter for routine work, Pro at $199/month or Business at $699/month for active-matter document load.

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