Turn your PDF listings into a searchable directory
Upload a PDF with tables or lists. Get a browsable directory with detail pages, category filters, and enquiry forms — published on its own URL, in minutes.
No credit card required · Published in minutes
Also works with Word and Excel list documents
How it works
Three steps. No database design required.
Describe the directory
Tell Exepad what kind of directory — members, vendors, suppliers, properties — and what categories and filters matter for finding entries.
Attach your PDF
Upload the document. Exepad detects tables and lists, extracts each row as a potential listing, and infers fields from the column headers.
Publish in minutes
Your directory is live with a URL. Every entry has its own page; filters appear at the top; enquiry forms on each listing capture leads.
Not a PDF table.
A browsable directory.
Your PDF becomes a searchable directory with a page per entry, filters, and forms — so visitors find who they need without downloading anything.
A detail page per listing
Each row from the PDF becomes a dedicated URL with its own title, meta tags, photos, and enquiry form. Indexable by Google as individual pages.
Filters and faceted search
Category, region, price, type — any column becomes a filter facet. Visitors narrow by clicking instead of scrolling through a static list.
Enquiry forms per listing
Add contact, booking, or RFP forms to each entry. Submissions store in the app and fire email to you (and optionally the listing owner).
Email on every enquiry
Visitors submit an enquiry, you get an email with the listing context, they get an auto-reply. No third-party email tool required.
Per-listing analytics
See which entries get the most traffic, which categories convert, and which search terms bring visitors. Built-in.
Mobile-ready cards
Listings render as responsive cards on phones — no horizontal scrolling, no truncated columns, no pinch-to-zoom to read details.
Built for PDF listings
Exepad reads the tables and lists inside your PDF as structured data — not as flat text.
Tables extracted as rows
Tables in the PDF are parsed into individual listing records — each row becomes a directory entry with fields derived from the column headers.
Lists become directory categories
Bulleted or numbered lists with clear categories become category pages, each with their own URL and filter scope.
Contact info becomes action links
Phone numbers become click-to-call, email addresses become click-to-email — and a form-based enquiry captures the interaction into the app.
OCR for scanned directories
If your PDF is a scan, OCR recovers the text and Exepad still builds the directory — same listings, same filters, same detail pages.
PDF listings vs. Exepad directory
A PDF of listings is a file people download but rarely use. A directory is infrastructure — searchable, browsable, and designed for finding entries fast.
Everything a PDF directory can't do
A PDF lists the entries. A directory serves them — indexed, searchable, and wired to capture enquiries your file was never going to support.
From PDF listings to directory
in one sitting
Your PDF's rows become listings, its columns become fields, its sections become categories. Exepad does the extraction; you describe the shape.
Rows become listings
Each row in a table inside your PDF becomes a detail page with its own URL, photo, description, and enquiry form.
Columns become filter facets
Category, region, type, price — each table column becomes a filter visitors can apply. Combinations produce URL-addressable views.
Sections become directory scopes
Different sections in your PDF (Gold Suppliers / Silver Suppliers; Food / Retail / Services) become separate scopes inside the same directory.
Frequently asked — PDF to Directory
Ready to publish?
Upload your PDF listings. Describe the directory. Get a searchable site in minutes.