How OCR Detects Tables in Images: A Simple Guide to Table Extraction

How OCR detects tables in images for CSV and Excel extraction

Converting text from an image is relatively straightforward for modern OCR systems. But extracting a table from an image is a different problem. A table is not just text. It contains relationships between headings, rows, columns, cells, and values. For example: Product Quantity Price Laptop 2 $800 Mouse 5 $15 Keyboard 3 $40 A basic … Read more

How to Improve OCR Accuracy: Practical Ways to Get Better Text From Images

How to improve OCR accuracy with image preprocessing

OCR can turn a scanned document, receipt, screenshot, photograph, or table into editable text. But OCR is not magic. If the source image is blurry, skewed, poorly lit, compressed, or difficult to read, even a capable OCR system can produce incorrect characters, missing words, or badly structured results. The good news is that many OCR … Read more

How to Scan Receipts to Excel Automatically: Extract Receipt Data Without Manual Typing

Scanning a receipt with OCR to extract purchase details into an Excel spreadsheet

Receipts contain useful information, including purchase dates, merchant names, item descriptions, quantities, taxes, and total amounts. But when you have dozens or hundreds of receipts, entering this information into Excel manually can become a tedious task. A faster approach is to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to extract text from receipt images and convert it … Read more