Depreciation schedules
PDF to Excel is the easy half. The columns are the hard half.
If you are looking for a free tool to convert a depreciation schedule PDF into Excel or CSV for a fixed asset import, the first conversion here is free, with no card. The free options you already have — Excel's Get Data from PDF, Acrobat's export, Tabula — will turn the page into cells, and the result is famously thirty columns collapsed into one. The problem was never extracting text; it's knowing that the fourth number on a row is prior depreciation and the fifth is current, and being able to prove nothing was dropped.
What happens to the file, stated plainly
A depreciation schedule carries asset costs, acquisition dates and a client's basis, so the vendor-trust question is the right one to ask before uploading it anywhere. Every step runs in the United States, including the model that reads the page. Social Security and employer identification numbers are detected and stripped from the text on upload and never written into an export file. Nothing you upload trains a model. The schedule and every extracted row delete themselves after 30 days, and a delete-now button on the conversion page does it sooner. All of this is written down on the security page in the form a WISP vendor file needs.
Layout-aware, not just text extraction
A depreciation schedule has no standard layout. Every suite prints its own, some print two variants, and scanned copies drift. We read by meaning: which column is basis, which is prior depreciation, which activity a block of rows belongs to — and score each row for how confident that reading is.
The output isn't 'an Excel file', it's an import file
A spreadsheet you still have to reshape is most of the work still to do. The file you get is already in your destination's exact contract — Drake's positional order, Lacerte's CSV, Intuit's 17 columns — so the next step is running the import, not another hour of cleanup.
And it tells you when it's wrong
A generic converter has no idea whether it dropped a row. This one checks its own output against the totals printed on the document and refuses to hand you a file that doesn't tie.
Questions
- Is there a free tool to convert a depreciation schedule PDF to Excel or CSV?
- The first conversion here is free and needs no card. After that it is $49 per schedule. The output is a spreadsheet already in your software's import layout, with the printed totals reconciled against the rows before you download it.
- Is it safe to upload a client's depreciation schedule?
- Processing, including the model that reads the page, happens entirely in the United States. SSNs and EINs are stripped on upload, nothing trains a model, and the file deletes itself after 30 days or sooner from the conversion page. The security page states this in WISP vendor-file form.
- Can I get a plain spreadsheet instead?
- The destination file is a spreadsheet — you can open it, read it, and edit it before importing. It's simply already shaped the way your software expects.
- Does it handle multi-page schedules?
- Yes, including rows that wrap across a page break — a common source of a total that doesn't tie in hand conversions.