Scanned PDFs and photos → real tables
A scan has no text layer — there is nothing to copy, and selecting the table gives you nothing. This reads the page the way a person does, so a skewed scan or a phone photo still comes back as a spreadsheet you can sum.
Corner Café
18 Mill Street, Bristol
RECEIPT
| Item | Qty | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Flat white | 2 | 7.00 |
| Sourdough toast | 1 | 5.50 |
The Excel you get back
| Merchant | Date | VAT | Total | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corner Café | 12/03/2026 | 2.08 | 12.50 | Meals |
| Shell Fuel Bristol | 12/03/2026 | 10.29 | 61.75 | Fuel |
| Tesco Stores 2841 | 13/03/2026 | 14.05 | 84.30 | Groceries |
| Total | 158.55 | |||
Drop a scanned PDF or a photo of a table
PDF · photo · iPhone HEIC · scan · zip · Word — mix them freely, no sign-up to try
Your first document converts free and the Excel downloads — no sign-up. $7 for a whole batch.
How it works
- 1
Drop the scan
A flatbed scan, a phone photo, a fax that became a PDF in 2009. All fine.
- 2
It reads the layout
Columns stay columns. A number in the debit column does not wander into credit.
- 3
Take the table
Excel, CSV or XML — with the amounts as numbers, not as text that looks like numbers.
No text layer needed
Traditional extractors look for text hiding under the image. When there is none — a scan, a photo — they return an empty table. This one looks at the page.
Crooked, creased, badly lit
A receipt photographed at a till is none of the things a parser wants. It is read anyway, because that is the form these documents actually arrive in.
Columns survive
OCR-then-parse flattens a page to a line of words and loses which column a number was in. The layout is read as a layout, so debit stays debit.
Questions people ask
- Can it read a scanned or photographed document?
- Yes. Scans and phone photos are read the way a person reads them — a crumpled receipt or a skewed scan still works, and there is no template to configure for each bank.
- What if one PDF holds many receipts?
- It splits them apart. Fifty receipts scanned into a single PDF become fifty rows; a twelve-page statement stays one document.
- Are the amounts real numbers in Excel?
- Yes. Amounts and balances arrive as numeric cells, so a column sums the moment you open the file.
- How are foreign currencies handled?
- Each amount is converted at the published rate for the date of that transaction — not today's rate. The rate and its date sit beside the figure so you can check it.
- Do I need an account?
- No. The first document converts free and you can download the Excel without an account. Pay $7 once for a whole batch; an account is only for a monthly page allowance.
- Does it work with QuickBooks and Xero?
- Yes. Alongside Excel, you can download a statement as OFX — the standard bank-data format both read — or as a ready-made CSV laid out the way each one expects: Date, Amount, Payee, Description, Reference for Xero, and the three-column Date, Description, Amount for QuickBooks, with money out already signed negative. Invoices and receipts can also come out as UBL XML for an ERP or an e-invoicing system.