Image to Excel (formerly It Excel) vs Columns AI (formerly Columns)

Upload a JPG or PNG and Image to Excel rebuilds the table rows and text inside as a downloadable .xlsx file. The web converter is free, needs no account, and returns results in a few seconds after you click Convert.

Unlike plain OCR tools that dump unstructured text, Image to Excel targets table grids and form layouts in photos. It handles English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese, which covers a lot of scanned receipts, invoices, and paperwork that would otherwise need manual retyping.

You can use it in a browser or through dedicated iOS and Android apps. The interface is built around a single upload-and-convert flow, so the whole process takes a few clicks.

It is aimed at accountants, data entry staff, office admins, and anyone who regularly receives table data as screenshots or scanned images instead of native spreadsheet files.

Columns AI takes messy files and live data sources through ingestion, automation, and chart publishing without making you stitch together separate tools. Drive ingests CSV, Excel, PDF, and images with OCR, Flow connects warehouses and apps with plain-language transformations, and Graph publishes brand-matched visuals you can embed or export.

Most BI tools assume your data is already clean and your team knows SQL. Columns splits the problem into three steps on purpose: structure files in Drive, automate sync and transforms in Flow, then ship client-ready charts from Graph without opening a separate design tool. You pay per row processed, and the Basic plan has no monthly base fee.

The site lists 12,000+ users across business operators, consultants, marketing and RevOps teams, analysts, and freelancers. Founder Shawn Cao previously built data infrastructure at Microsoft, Facebook, and Pinterest.