Manually typing the information into Excel is slow and unnecessarily error-prone.
Step 1: Find your table image
This could be:
- a screenshot
- a photograph
- a PNG
- a JPG
- an image exported from a PDF
- a screenshot from a website
- a picture of a worksheet
- a picture of a printed table
Step 2: Open Tablio's image/table extraction tool
Open Tablio's image extraction workflow and upload your image.
Step 3: Let Tablio read the table
Tablio analyzes the image and attempts to identify:
- rows
- columns
- text
- numbers
- relationships between cells
This turns a static image into information you can actually work with.
Step 4: Review the result
Image quality matters. For the best results:
- use a high-resolution image
- avoid extreme blur
- make sure the entire table is visible
- avoid excessive perspective distortion
- use good lighting for photographs
- crop unnecessary parts of the image when possible
If the original image is difficult to read even for a human, extraction will naturally be more difficult.
Step 5: Export and continue working
Once the table has been extracted, export it into the available format and continue editing it in your spreadsheet software.
A simple example
Imagine you receive an image of a table. Instead of manually typing 100 cells, upload the image to Tablio and let the extraction system create structured data for you.
When is this useful?
This workflow is especially useful for:
- students
- researchers
- teachers
- analysts
- accountants
- office workers
- anyone who regularly receives tables as screenshots or images