Images that work well
- Screenshots of tables from websites, apps or reports - these read best, because the text is sharp.
- Phone photos of printed tables, taken straight from above in good light.
- Pictures of handwritten tables are not supported: OCR is reliable only on printed text.
What happens to the picture
The image is straightened if it is a little crooked, the text is read with OCR in the language you choose, and the words are placed into rows and columns by their position. Numbers and dates become real Excel values. The image is never uploaded.
Questions
Which image formats are supported?
JPG, JPEG, PNG, WEBP and BMP, and PDFs that contain pictures.
Can I convert several images at once?
Put the images into one PDF (most phones can "Print to PDF") and convert that file: each image becomes a page.