Insert Data from Picture
25 September 2018
There’s another new feature now out – Insert Data from Picture – one of several new products to come out of Microsoft's recent advances in Artificial Intelligence. You can take a picture of a hand-drawn or printed data table with your Android device and convert that analogue information into an Excel spreadsheet with a single click. New image recognition functionality automatically converts the picture to a fully editable table in Excel, eliminating the need for you to manually enter data. Insert Data from Picture will be available in Preview for the Excel Android app soon.
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You must remember that "available in Preview," is Microsoft code for "it’s not necessarily the final version of a product or feature". This feature will presumably be coming to the iOS version of Excel as well at some point, but there are no details yet.