Use Your Phone’s Camera to Create an Excel Spreadsheet

The spreadsheet conversion tool sends the image to Excel’s online image-recognition engine to process and convert the words and numbers into a table. And it can convert nearly two dozen languages. During the import, Excel gives you a chance to fix anything before it’s converted.

Excel for Android and iPhone is part of Microsoft’s collection of Office apps for mobile devices that includes Word and PowerPoint. The free versions of the mobile productivity apps give you basic editing tools. With a Microsoft Office subscription, you can unlock more features, such as the ability to collaborate with colleagues.