追风

I Built an Image-to-Excel Tool After Getting Tired of Re-Typing Tables This project started from a very common work scenario. It’s almost 6 p.m. You’re ready to wrap up for the day. Then your manager sends a message: “Can you convert these invoices / scanned tables into an Excel file?” You open the images and immediately recognize the problem: Slightly blurry photos Crooked scans Broken or unclear table borders Random fonts and numbers What follows is a painfully familiar process: Typing data row by row Zooming in and out repeatedly Double-checking every number Still getting asked, “Are you sure this value is correct?” Manual data entry is slow, exhausting, and surprisingly error-prone. Why Existing Tools Didn’t Work Well Enough I tried several image-to-Excel and OCR tools already available online, but they all had similar issues: Table structures were poorly reconstructed OCR errors like 8 → B or 0 → O happened too often Batch processing was either limited or unreliable I then exper...