A photograph of a table is just pixels. Doclium reads the words out of it with OCR, keeps the position of every word, and rebuilds the grid from where those words sit on the page — then writes it into Excel with the numbers as real numbers. Position is the part that matters. Reading the words alone gives you a list; a table is the words plus their columns. Doclium finds columns the way a reader does, from the vertical bands of whitespace running down the image, which is why it works on tables whose columns are separated by spacing rather than ruled lines. It will not invent a table that is not there. A page of prose comes back with a clear message instead of an imaginary one-column spreadsheet, because a wrong table that looks right is worse than no table at all.

How to convert image table to Excel

1. 1Upload a photo, a scan or a screenshot of the table — JPG, PNG or HEIC.
2. 2OCR reads the text and records where each word sits in the image.
3. 3Columns are inferred from the whitespace between them, rows from the text baselines.
4. 4Download the .xlsx, with numeric cells you can total immediately.

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