How to get a handwritten table into Excel or a CSV

1. Draw the table on paper. A grid with lines, or columns neatly lined up under a header row. Put the column names in the first row, such as Date, Client, Hours.
2. Photograph the page. With the Axsuro app on your iPhone, straight from above and in good light, or upload a photo or PDF in the browser at app.axsuro.com.
3. Copy it or download a CSV. Open the page. Under “Tables” you see the grid with its header row. Tap “Copy table” and paste it into Excel, or choose “Download CSV”.

Axsuro reads the table as part of reading the page; there is nothing extra to click. It recognises:

• a hand-drawn grid with rows and columns,
• columns without lines that are clearly lined up under a header row, for example a list of date, amount and note.

Cells are read from left to right, as you wrote them. If the first row is a header, it becomes the column names. A table needs at least two rows and two columns; a single list stays a list.

The lines of the page stay exactly as written, so every cell can also be found with search and Ask.

“Copy table” puts the table on your clipboard in a way spreadsheets paste as real cells, not as a block of text:

• Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers: click a cell and paste. Every cell from the paper lands in its own cell.
• Word and Notion: it becomes a table in the document.
• CSV: “Download CSV” saves a file named after the table's title. It is separated by semicolons, which European versions of Excel open directly; elsewhere, use Excel's import and pick the semicolon.

In the iPhone app you copy the table the same way and share the CSV file through the share sheet, for example by email or to Files.

Axsuro does not create an Excel file (.xlsx). Copying gives you the same cells, and any spreadsheet opens a CSV.

• A header row: column names at the top make it clear where a column starts and what it holds.
• One thing per cell: a number, a name, a date. Something written across two cells ends up in one of them.
• The whole grid in the frame: every edge of the table in the photo, flat and from above. Axsuro crops the page but does not straighten the perspective.
• A quick check: reading can make mistakes. Glance at the numbers before you calculate with them, and change a wrong cell right in Excel after pasting.

Tables to Excel work on every plan, Free included. Free reads 60 pages a month, and every new account starts with 14 days of Pro, no card needed. All plans are on the pricing page.

How Axsuro reads the rest of the page is in the guide Convert handwriting to text. Formulas on the same page go out as LaTeX, see Handwritten maths to LaTeX.

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