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Get the rows. Keep the doubts visible.

Upload a PDF and Bearly extracts its tables into a usable Excel workbook—not a screenshot in a grid—with review notes for uncertain cells.

Use the tool

Upload the PDF with the tables

Native PDFs and scans both work. Tell Bearly which tables or pages matter when the document contains more than one dataset.

Upload the complete source PDF, including pages that define headers or footnotes.

Optional: name pages, tables, desired sheets, date formats, or columns that need special treatment.

Your input stays in this browser through sign-in and expires after two hours. Bearly imports it into a private chat and starts the work automatically.

What it actually does

Useful before impressive.

PDFs preserve appearance, not data structure. Bearly uses document extraction and OCR to rebuild tables, then checks obvious totals and surfaces uncertainty instead of smuggling guesses into a spreadsheet.

Because the workbook lives with the source conversation, the next instruction can clean categories, join tables, chart a trend, explain an anomaly, or regenerate only the sheet that needs repair.

Worked example

The shape of a good result.

Every result follows the material you provide. This example shows the level of specificity Bearly is aiming for.

PDF table

Pages 8–12 contain regional revenue tables. Preserve quarter labels, negative numbers in parentheses, and the footnote markers. Add source page per row.

Workbook checks

Sheets

Four region sheets plus a Review sheet for uncertain cells.

Types

Dates, percentages, and currency are stored as usable cell values rather than formatted text.

Reconciliation

Visible regional totals agree with the PDF; two blurred cells are flagged with page references.

Delivery

Downloadable .xlsx workbook saved with the source chat.

How it works

Three moves. One conversation.

  1. 01

    Upload the whole PDF

    Headers and footnotes often live outside the table page.

  2. 02

    Extract and reconcile

    Bearly rebuilds structure and checks what can be checked.

  3. 03

    Download or analyze

    Open the workbook or continue cleaning and analyzing the data.

Keep going

The result is not a dead end.

  • Normalize categories and join sheets.
  • Create charts and an executive summary from the extracted data.
  • Compare the workbook with a second reporting period.

Worth knowing

No magic tricks.

  • Scans and handwritten marks reduce extraction confidence.
  • Review every flagged cell before using the workbook for accounting or reporting.
  • Complex merged cells may need a second layout pass.

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Ready when you are

Get the rows. Keep the doubts visible.

Start the focused job now. The rest of Bearly will be there when the job becomes something larger.

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