Turn a photo of a table into an Excel sheet

Photograph a printed table on iPhone or iPad, check the rows and columns, and save an Excel file you can edit. Tablune is coming soon.

A printed table becomes useful when each cell is a cell, not a picture of a cell. Tablune on iPhone and iPad photographs the table, reads the rows and columns, and saves an Excel sheet you can edit. The app is coming soon. It will include a 7-day free trial and requires iOS 15.6 or later.

Photograph the table

Grant Camera or Photos when Tablune asks.
Photograph the table, or open a picture you already took.
Keep the page flat and the grid inside the frame. Crooked paper and a thumb over a column are the usual reasons a row splits wrong.

You can also start from a file you imported. The photo itself can be JPEG, PNG, HEIC, WebP, or GIF.

Check the grid, then save Excel

OCR reads the rows and columns into a grid. Tap a cell to copy, cut, paste, or delete. Add a row or a column if the scan missed one. When the grid matches the paper, save or share it as Excel.

The photo can stay with the sheet

Tablune is also a file manager. You can keep the original picture and the sheet in the same place, switch between list and grid, and preview the image. It is not a cloud drive. The scan happens on the device.