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xavctn/img2table A tool that works on your files

Turn a scanned table or screenshot into an editable Excel spreadsheet

  • Open source
  • Runs on your own computer
  • Windows, Mac or Linux
  • Tested 4 Nov 2026

You bring

  • a PNG, JPEG or PDF with a printed English table and visible cell borders on each page

You get

  • an editable worksheet for each table, in page order, with whole-number counts stored as numbers
What can it reach?

Only the files you give it, with no network.

How was it tested?

Run on clean Intel and AMD and Apple silicon and ARM machines on 4 Nov 2026. Its check passed on a known sample and rejected deliberately broken results.

This checks the job this page describes, not every feature of the original project.

Project, licence and recipe files

xavctn/img2table on GitHub

Licence. img2table MIT; Tesseract and English tessdata Apache-2.0.

The 8 recipe files

Recipe revision 5cc316a75339, from ace000c980b4.

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Documents and text

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