With a Microsoft Office subscription, you can unlock more features, such as the ability to collaborate with colleagues. The free versions of the mobile productivity apps give you basic editing tools. During the import, Excel gives you a chance to fix anything before it's converted.Įxcel for Android and iPhone is part of Microsoft's collection of Office apps for mobile devices that includes Word and PowerPoint. And it can convert nearly two dozen languages.
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. With Excel's Insert Data from Picture tool, you can snap a photo of data in rows and columns on a piece of paper, and the iOS and Android Excel app will automatically convert the image into editable table data. A Microsoft tool for Android phones and iPhones ( $890 at Amazon) can convert words and numbers on a sheet of paper into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in a couple of seconds.
Step away from the keyboard, and pick up your phone. Excel's Insert Data from Picture in action.
