In short: Tiro reads the values you need from PDFs – header fields such as invoice number, date and total as well as the individual line items – and presents them as a table. You upload the file, the AI proposes the columns, and you download the result as Excel or CSV. No template, no training, no shifted columns.
Why "convert PDF to Excel" usually goes wrong
A PDF knows nothing about tables. It stores characters with coordinates. A classic converter tries to reconstruct rows and columns from that – and fails as soon as an invoice has multi-line items, shifted blocks or a second page. Everyone who has tried it knows the result: amounts as text with thousands separators, dates Excel cannot sort, and columns named differently on every document.
The actual need is rarely "the layout in Excel" but "these seven values from every document in the same seven columns". That is exactly what Tiro does.
What Tiro does differently
- Fields instead of layout. You decide which values go into the table. On the first upload the AI proposes fitting fields for your document type; afterwards they are editable in the inbox.
- Line items as rows. Invoice positions, bank statement transactions or delivery note articles are output as their own table rows – one row per item, across all documents.
- Normalized values. Dates come as ISO dates, amounts as real numbers. Excel can sum, filter and sort immediately.
- Scans included. Text layer and page image are evaluated together, which is why scanned or photographed documents work too.
- No identical layout required. Every document is read individually. Tiro is strongest with recurring documents: create the inbox once, then upload whatever comes in.
Typical documents
| Document | Typical fields | Line items |
|---|---|---|
| Incoming invoice | Invoice number, date, supplier, net, VAT, gross | Article, quantity, unit price |
| Bank statement | Account number/IBAN, period, opening/closing balance | Booking date, reference, amount |
| Delivery note | Delivery note number, date, recipient | Article number, description, quantity |
| Purchase order | Order number, date, delivery address | Article, quantity, price |
Limits – honestly
Handwritten notes and very poor scans (skewed, blurry, cropped) are hard for any automatic recognition; in such cases Tiro shows the document's status and the recognized values so you can check instead of silently getting wrong numbers. The output is one table per inbox – if you need an exact replica of the page layout in Excel, a layout converter serves you better.
For developers
Everything that works in the browser also works via REST API with an API key: upload a PDF, fetch the result as JSON. Same rules and limits as in the UI.