Do formulas come back when converting PDF to XLS?

No - a PDF stores only the printed result. The conversion rebuilds cell values from the page layout; whatever formulas produced those numbers in the original workbook are gone and must be recreated in Excel.

Does the XLS row limit matter for PDF conversions?

Rarely. XLS holds up to 65,536 rows per sheet, and few PDFs carry tables that long - but if yours does (a full transaction log, say), target XLSX instead, which allows 1,048,576 rows.

Can I extract tables from a scanned PDF into XLS?

Only after OCR. A scan is a picture of a table, with no text or cell boundaries underneath, so nothing can be mapped to cells until text recognition runs. Digitally exported PDFs - where you can select the text - convert directly.

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Converting PDF to XLS returns spreadsheet data to the legacy Excel format required by some older systems and templates, ready for editing and calculation.

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Tip: For current Excel, XLSX is usually the better target — choose XLS only when a legacy system requires it.

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