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PankajNagesh6349
Jul 13, 2023Copper Contributor
Help needed from you experts
Hello community, Greetings ! I urgently need to convert these data into excel, my boss gave the work to me 2 weeks ago. I'm currently puting the data in excel manually but at this pace I'm sure that...
JeanDavid
Jul 14, 2023Copper Contributor
Looks difficult, very difficult, if you only have image files as source.
OCR (for Optical Chararcter Recognition if I remember well) software might help though, but such software may not be 100 % accurate. The last time I tried, 20 years ago, I ended up taking more time in reviewing the mistakes than it would have taken me to type in manually.
But OCR software have made great progresses in 20 years, for sure.
It also depends of the quality of your pictures (your jpeg files).
OCR (for Optical Chararcter Recognition if I remember well) software might help though, but such software may not be 100 % accurate. The last time I tried, 20 years ago, I ended up taking more time in reviewing the mistakes than it would have taken me to type in manually.
But OCR software have made great progresses in 20 years, for sure.
It also depends of the quality of your pictures (your jpeg files).