How to Convert an Image of a Table to Excel (Free, with Hindi Support)

Retyping a table from a photo is slow and full of mistakes. Marksheets, price lists, bills and attendance sheets often arrive as pictures, but you need them in Excel. An OCR tool can read the text and rebuild the rows and columns for you.

How to convert an image to Excel

1. Open Image to Excel and upload a photo or screenshot of the table.
2. Choose the language of the text (English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and more).
3. Click convert, then check the preview table and fix any cells directly.
4. Download the file as Excel (.xlsx) or CSV.

Tips for the cleanest result

• Keep the page straight. Take the photo from directly above, not at an angle.
• Use good light with no shadow across the table.
• Crop to the table so there is no extra text around it.
• Use a high-resolution photo, but avoid huge files that are slow to read.
• If columns merge or split wrongly, change the Column detection setting and try again.

Always check the numbers

OCR can confuse similar characters, like 5 and 6 or 1 and 7, especially in blurry photos. Look through the preview before you use the data, particularly for money and marks.

Only need the text, not a table?

Use Image to Text to copy plain text, or PDF OCR for a scanned PDF.