Getting Table Data Out of a Scanned PDF

A scanned PDF has no real text layer to extract from -- add one first, then pull the table data into a spreadsheet.

OCR has to come first because PDF to Excel's table detection depends on real, selectable text with real page positions -- a scan has neither until OCR adds a genuine text layer to work from.

Each step opens as its own tool -- download from one, upload into the next, same as any free tool on the site.