Image to Excel Converter

This tool turns a picture of a table into a spreadsheet. Drop in a screenshot or photo, and OCR reads the text while a clustering pass rebuilds the rows and columns. You get an editable grid to fix any misread cells, then download a .xlsx workbook or a .csv. The image is processed in your browser; the OCR engine may fetch its English model over the network.

Try a checked screenshot-to-Excel example

Download our original table image and choose it in the tool above. In our English OCR check, it produced the four rows below. Compare your editable grid with the image before downloading. You can also open the checked XLSX example to see the exported text cells; your browser's OCR result may need corrections.

When a draft extraction saves time

Data arrives in stubbornly uneditable forms: a paper bank statement, a printed price list, a supplier catalogue, a screenshot from a web portal that offers no export button. Retyping a long table can be slow and can introduce errors. A transposed digit in a column of figures can produce a wrong total. Extraction can save typing when a table is clear, but it can misread a digit or place text in the wrong column. Compare each value with the image before using it in a calculation, statement or invoice.

• Bank statements and receipts into a spreadsheet for bookkeeping or a tax return.
• Price lists and catalogues from a supplier PDF or screenshot into something sortable.
• Printed reports and survey results into rows you can pivot and chart.
• Marksheets and result tables into a sheet for calculating averages.

How the rows and columns are reconstructed

OCR alone returns a flat run of words, which is useless for a table. The structure comes from the coordinates. Every recognised word carries a bounding box, and the tool uses those in two passes. Rows come from vertical position: words whose boxes sit within a threshold derived from the average glyph height on the page are grouped onto the same line. Columns come from horizontal gaps: the tool estimates character width and uses wider gaps as possible column boundaries. Words are then placed into the nearest detected cells. This is an approximation, so even a clean table can need corrections.

What extracts well, and what does not

Getting a cleaner extraction

1. Prefer a screenshot to a photo. No perspective, no shadow, perfectly sharp text.
2. Crop to the table itself, removing page furniture, logos, and surrounding paragraphs.
3. Shoot square-on if you must photograph paper, and keep shadows off the page.
4. Feed it resolution. Small text is the main cause of character errors.
5. Check the numeric columns first in the grid, since a wrong digit matters far more than a wrong letter.

Privacy for the documents this tool is actually used on

The selected image is processed by OCR in your browser, and ToolJiffy does not upload it for recognition. The browser may fetch the OCR code and English language model over the network, especially on first use. A connected cloud picker fetches the selected file from its provider. Review your browser and provider settings before using financial, medical or other sensitive documents.

Related tools

If you want plain text rather than a grid, or you need a language other than English,Image to Text handles eight. For a table inside a text-based PDF,PDF to Excel may use embedded text positions without OCR, though it can still misplace values in complex layouts. For a scanned PDF, make it searchable with OCR PDF or export the pages usingPDF to JPG and bring one here.