Free, privacy-first PDF to Parquet converter. Extract tables from PDF files and compress into Parquet format directly in your browser. No uploads, no servers.
Extracts tabular data from PDF files and compresses it into Parquet's columnar format. The result is a compact file optimized for analytical queries.
Your PDF stays on your device. No data is sent to any server. Everything runs locally in your browser using DuckDB WASM.
Identifies column boundaries, headers, and data types from your PDF tables automatically. No manual configuration needed.
Filter rows, rename columns, fix types, aggregate data, or add calculated fields before exporting. Clean your data on the way to Parquet.
No sign-up, no trial, no watermarks. Extract tables from as many PDFs as you need and compress to Parquet, completely free.
Once loaded, ExploreMyData works without an internet connection. Convert PDF tables to Parquet even on a plane.
Drag a .pdf file onto the page. Tables are extracted instantly.
Filter rows, fix column types, or remove duplicates before export.
Click Export, choose Parquet, and download a compressed columnar file.
Open exploremydata.com/app, drop your PDF file onto the page, and the table data is extracted automatically. Click Export and choose Parquet. The file is compressed and ready to download.
Parquet is a columnar storage format that produces smaller files and enables faster queries. A 50 MB PDF table might compress to under 5 MB in Parquet, and tools like DuckDB, Spark, and BigQuery can query it directly.
Text-based PDFs with tabular data work best. Scanned PDFs are also supported through browser-based OCR, which works best with clear, high-resolution scans and is limited to the first 10 pages. Text-based PDFs are processed without OCR for faster results.
Yes. If your PDF is password protected, ExploreMyData will prompt you to enter the password. The password is used locally in your browser and is never transmitted anywhere.
Yes. After extraction, you can filter rows, fix column types, remove duplicates, rename headers, and apply 32+ transformations before exporting to Parquet.
No sign-up, no upload, no tracking. Just drop your file and export.
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