I'd say ites down to two our Nitro PDF Professional and Adobe Acrobat. As far as I'm aware the rest of the converters out there are quite manual to work with. IMO a good PDF to Excel converter automatically detects tabular content in PDF files discards unrelated content and leaves you with clean tables in Excel. Most don't do it instead leaving you with a messy Excel file or they force you to manually highlight the tables you want to convert. If you're just after occasional conversions then you could just use our free 'PDF to Excel' service -- . It uses the same underlying technology as our Nitro PDF Professional product.