Image to Excel

Anyone staring at a screenshot, scanned page or photo of a table they need in a spreadsheet is who Image to Excel is for.

Image to Excel is a free online OCR tool that converts images containing table data into editable Excel files.

You upload the file, and the AI reads the table and gives you back a spreadsheet you can work in, with CSV output also available.

It accepts JPG, PNG, PDF, GIF, JFIF (JPEG) and HEIC, so phone photos and scanned PDFs are covered along with ordinary screenshots.

The site says it handles complex layouts, merged cells and headers, and cites accuracy of up to 99%.

Use that figure as a best case.

Messy scans and crooked photos will usually need a quick check before you rely on the numbers.

The main appeal is that it replaces retyping figures by hand, and it costs nothing to use.

It is a narrow tool geared toward one job, extracting tables, rather than a general document suite.