Have you ever had a picture and felt like you needed to extract text from it in Excel or Word? Extracting important texts from an image is often useful but may be tiresome.
Nevertheless, when one transmits the image to Excel format, the data is usually more retrievable, and you can make the right entries in a table. We will show you how on today’s blog here at Utah Entrepreneur Magazine.
How to Convert Image to Excel in Mobile
Converting an image to text in Canva and many other related applications is straightforward. Furthermore, anything written can be selected with the mouse cursor, copied to the clipboard on devices running the Apple and Samsung operating systems, and even pasted where needed from a picture.
However, to convert it directly to Excel on your phone:
1. To start, open MS Excel on your phone. In the main MS Excel window, tap on + Create on the right side and then on the Excel icon.
2. Click Scan Table and choose the picture you want to transform.
3. Control its edges with the colored handles; drag them to select only the table you need, and crop the picture.
4. Once done, tap on Continue. If you have a new table in Excel, it will attempt to infer the structure and presence of the table as well as the values in each cell.
5. Mostly, as you go through the Table preview, if the table displayed is okay, you press Open.
6. Another feature of Excel is that almost all cell values can be directly edited, and additional or deleted rows and columns can be created. The file can then be saved using the same table style.
Directly from Excel
If, as a work style, you prefer Excel, you can extract and arrange your data into tables directly.
Note: However, as this option is unavailable in all Excel versions, visit Microsoft Support and see the prerequisites. If you do not have this in your Excel document, you can also use Microsoft Teams.
1. If you do not have an open Excel workbook, open it now, navigate to this image file, which we will need later, and put it on the Desktop for easy access.
2. Go to the Data section of the ribbon, select the ‘Get & Transform Data’ option, and finally click on Data from Picture.
3. Search for your image and then click open. Now, wait for Excel’s DPA to analyze the image it contains and sometimes to highlight the cells that could be recognizable.
4. Everything should look fine. If everything is fine, click Insert Data. If Excel appears lost, click on Review to get assistance. Each cell highlighted—check the instances of PF in that cell or recall information about the terms that were extracted.
From Word Itself
You can use the available MS Word online to convert images to text.
1. Now go into Microsoft Word and click on File, then New to open a new Microsoft Word.
2. Next, click on the Insert tab, select Pictures, and use this device option.
3. Choose your image file from your computer or your cloud storage.
4. If uploaded, click on File, then save as, and in save as type to select docs, type to PDF.
5. Following that, listen to the steps in method 1 under the subtopic How to Convert PDF Image to Text Microsoft Word.
Use Google Drive
You can also use this Google Drive trick to convert pictures into text. Just follow these steps:
1. Extract or place your image on Google Drive/Drop or try to upload the image to your drive.
2. To use Google Docs to view the image, right-click with the mouse, hover on Open with, and click Google Docs.
3. Go to the File tab at the top, select Download, then pick the Microsoft Word (.docx) option to download the text in Word.
Using Word itself
Follow the steps below:
1. In Microsoft Word, go to the Insert tab and then Pictures. Under Pictures, select This Device to upload the image of the PDF that you wish to convert to text.
2. Choose the PD you made before. This will generate a pop-up window on the screen; click on OK in this pop-up.
Using Online OCR Tools (Free and Paid)
Any third-party OCR tool, including Smallpdf, Adobe Acrobat Pro DC online, or Free Online OCR, can be used to convert an image to text easily.
1. Select one of the several online OCR tools. We have chosen Smallpdf here.
2. Select PDF to Word as the conversion type. Select the PDF file you want to convert in the Choose Files section.
3. Rawtherapee supports two modes—Convert and Start. Locate the corresponding icon and click on it. Await the processed file. This should download the converted Word document.
4. Select the text and copy it and paste the copied text in the Word file if you have downloaded the file, or else rewrite the text after you have completed revising and editing the text.
We hope that our guide has aided you in correctly converting pictures to text in both Excel and Word.
In case you have any questions concerning us or ideas that you would like to share, feel free to use the comment section below, and we’ll be looking forward to hearing from you more here in TechCult for more new tricks regarding the technology you are using.
