When PDF to Excel conversion actually works well
PDF tables come in two forms: real table structures exported from spreadsheets or reporting tools, and visual tables that just happen to look like a grid because of aligned text and lines. The first kind converts cleanly to Excel — rows and columns map directly. The second kind requires the converter to infer column boundaries from spacing, which is where most tools produce scrambled output.
PrivaPDF's engine analyzes the underlying text positions on each page to reconstruct row and column boundaries before writing the .xlsx file, which handles bank statements, invoices, and reporting tables noticeably better than naive text-dump converters.