All essentials

Drop a CSV and I'll set it out as a PDF — nothing is uploaded.

Free tool

CSV to PDF

Turn a CSV into a PDF table with sized columns, a repeating header row and page numbers — the exhibit-ready version of a file that prints as unreadable text everywhere else.

Good to know

  • Column widths come from the data, so long free-text columns are capped rather than allowed to squeeze the rest away.
  • A table wider than the page carries on across later pages, labelled with the columns it covers.
  • Landscape and a smaller type size are the two things that fit more across; both are on the panel.

Your files stay on your machine

This tool runs entirely inside your browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, stored, or sent to a server — close the tab and every trace is gone.

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How big a file can it take?

There is no upload, so there is no upload limit — but the work happens in this tab, which means your browser’s memory is the budget. Nothing here will refuse a file for being large; a big enough one simply gets slow and, eventually, reloads the tab. The figures below are rules of thumb on a desktop browser, not enforced caps. On a phone or tablet, expect a good deal less.

  • The CSV and the finished PDF are both in memory at once — comfortable to around 20,000 rows.
  • Every row is a line on a page, so a long CSV becomes a long PDF; that laying-out is the slow part, not the reading.

Password-protected PDFs are declined whatever their size — unlock the file first. If a run does die on a long document, splitting it into volumes and working through them one at a time is the reliable way round it.

Built on open source

The Essentials tools do their work in your browser using these open-source libraries, used under the licenses below. Each remains the copyright of its authors.

  • pdf-libMIT · creates and edits the PDFs you download
  • pdf.jsApache-2.0 · reads your PDF and renders the page previews
  • SheetJS (xlsx)Apache-2.0 · reads Excel workbooks — .xlsx, .xls, .xlsb and .ods
  • hyparquetMIT · reads Apache Parquet files
  • hyparquet-compressorsMIT · the Parquet codecs beyond Snappy — Gzip, Zstd, Brotli, LZ4
  • JSZipMIT · bundles multi-file results into one ZIP
  • LucideISC · the icons throughout these tools
  • ReactMIT · the interface itself
  • Next.jsMIT · builds and serves these pages

pdf.js ships fallback fonts contributed by Foxit Software, redistributed here as part of pdf.js. JSZip is dual-licensed; it is used here under the MIT license.