Image to Excel Converter

Turn a Picture of a Table into a Real Spreadsheet

Retyping figures from a screenshot, a scanned statement or a phone photo of a printed report is slow and error-prone. This free image to Excel converter reads the table with OCR (optical character recognition), works out the rows and columns, and gives you an editable grid you can check against the picture before you export it as an .xlsx workbook or a CSV file — or paste it straight into Excel or Google Sheets.

Excel has a similar Data from Picture feature, but it needs a Microsoft 365 subscription and sends the picture to an online service to be read. This tool needs no account or Office licence, works in any modern browser — Edge, Chrome, Firefox or Safari — and does the recognition on your own computer. Once the page and the language file have loaded it even works offline, which makes it practical for confidential figures such as budgets, payroll exports and bank statements.

How to convert an image to Excel

1. Add the picture — drop a PNG, JPG or WebP file or a scanned PDF (every page becomes its own table), or take a screenshot with Win+Shift+S and press Ctrl+V on this page.
2. Check the grid — cells the OCR engine was unsure about are shaded amber. Click a cell to correct it, and add or delete rows and columns as needed.
3. Limit it to the table — if the picture also contains a heading, notes or a logo, drag a box around the table on the image. Only that area is read again.
4. Export — download Excel (one sheet per table) or CSV, or copy the cells and paste them into Excel or Google Sheets. Markdown is there for wikis and README files.

Numbers stay numbers

With Convert numbers on, values such as 1,204.50, $45.00, ₹1,23,456, 1.234,56, (125.00) or 12% become real numeric cells, so SUM, sorting and pivot tables work straight away, and the original look — decimals, thousands separators, currency symbol, accounting brackets, percentages — is kept as the Excel number format. Codes with leading zeros such as item numbers, PIN and ZIP codes or account numbers stay text, so the zeros don't vanish. Mark the first row as a header to keep it as text and get an AutoFilter in Excel.

Tips for accurate table OCR

• Start sharp. Screenshots and PDF exports give the best results. For photos, hold the phone parallel to the page and avoid shadows — slightly tilted photos are straightened automatically.
• Crop to the table so titles, footnotes and logos don't turn into extra rows.
• Use Column sensitivity. If two columns come out merged, slide it towards more columns; if one column is split in two, slide it towards fewer. The grid is rebuilt instantly without reading the image again.
• Ruled or borderless, both work. Columns are found from the gaps between words, so tables with or without grid lines are fine.
• Other scripts. Pick the language of the table — Hindi, Arabic, Japanese and 18 more — and keep Text also contains English ticked for mixed tables.

Limitations

Merged cells, cells whose text wraps onto several lines, rotated headings and handwriting are not rebuilt reliably, so check those areas in the grid. Tiny or blurry text lowers accuracy; a larger screenshot usually fixes it. Up to 20 PDF pages are read at a time — split longer files first. If your PDF already has selectable text, Invoice to Excel reads its tables exactly, without OCR.

Private by design

The image, the recognised text and your edits stay in your browser tab. Nothing is uploaded to SarvKit or anyone else — the only downloads are the OCR engine and language data, which are cached for next time. Need the words rather than a table? Use Image to Text. Collecting receipts for an expense claim? The Receipt Scanner builds the expense sheet for you, the Business Card Scanner turns cards into contacts, and OCR PDF makes a whole scanned document searchable.