Can I convert a PDF to Excel and keep the pictures inside the cells?
Yes — bnbff rebuilds each embedded photo back into its own Excel cell automatically, with no manual inserting. Most converters extract the table text and drop the images, or hand you a folder of loose files to re-attach; bnbff puts each real photo back in the cell it came from. Give it a spreadsheet-style PDF with gridlines and you get back a real, editable .xlsx with every picture already in its row.
Updated July 2026
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A spreadsheet-style export with real gridlines — the kind Google Sheets or Excel produces.
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bnbff builds a real 5-row .xlsx sample — photos already rebuilt into their cells — so you can open it and confirm before paying.
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A real, editable .xlsx with every row and every picture back in its own cell. Files are deleted within an hour.
How bnbff compares
| Tool | Photo back in each cell | How images are handled | Price | Excel version needed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| bnbff | Yes — automatic | Each embedded photo is rebuilt into the cell it came from | $3 per file, one-off | Any modern Excel |
| Most PDF-to-Excel converters | No | Table text only — images are dropped or handed back as loose files | Free to subscription | Any |
| OCR tools | No | The picture is read as text; the image itself isn't kept | Free to subscription | Any |
| Excel's built-in Place-in-Cell | Manual | You insert each picture into its cell by hand | Built in | Microsoft 365 / Excel 2024 |
The mechanism
bnbff reads each embedded picture out of the PDF and reconstructs it inside the exact Excel cell it came from — so the photo travels with its row instead of being thrown away.
What bnbff can and can't do
Works
Spreadsheet-style PDFs with real vector gridlines — tables exported from Google Sheets or Excel, including multi-section documents (one sheet per detected table) and any column headers.
Doesn't work
Scanned or image-only PDFs and designed, laid-out catalogs with no gridlines. There is nothing structured to read, so bnbff declines them for free rather than charge you for a file it can't build.
Frequently asked
Do I have to insert each picture myself?
No. That is the whole point — bnbff rebuilds every embedded photo into its own cell automatically. You don't drag images in one by one, and you don't need Excel's manual Place-in-Cell feature or the IMAGE function.
Do I need Excel 2024 or Microsoft 365?
No. bnbff writes a standard .xlsx with the photos already anchored in their cells, so it opens in any modern Excel — no special version, add-in or VBA macro required.
How are the photos handled?
Every embedded photo is rebuilt into its own cell — the real picture, right where it belongs. bnbff takes each embedded picture from the PDF and reconstructs it inside the exact Excel cell it came from.
What kind of PDF works?
A spreadsheet-style PDF with real gridlines — a table exported from Google Sheets or Excel. Scanned pages and designed catalogs without gridlines don't work, and bnbff declines those for free rather than charge you.
How much does it cost?
The first 5 rows are a free, real .xlsx sample so you can check the result. The full file is a one-off $3 — no account and no subscription.
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