Image to CSV Converter — Extract a Table from an Image to CSV

Reading the table and previewing it on screen are free. Sign in for daily free .csv exports; after that allowance, use Premium or credits, and the export button shows the cost. The CSV carries no Pixoate watermark or branding. Images are processed on our servers and removed under our Security policy.

Upload the image, the OCR detects the table structure, and a UTF-8 encoded CSV is generated and downloaded. Commas inside cells are quoted, headers stay in the first row, and trailing whitespace is stripped, so the file is ready to drop into Google Sheets, Excel, Numbers, or any BI tool that consumes CSV.

Yes. The CSV is RFC-4180 compliant with UTF-8 encoding and CRLF line endings, which Google Sheets, Excel, Numbers, Airtable, Notion and most CRMs ingest without prompting for advanced import options. Just choose File → Import and pick the downloaded .csv — no extra cleanup needed.

Yes. Currency markers ($, €, £, ¥, ₹), percentage signs and common date formats (YYYY-MM-DD, MM/DD/YYYY, DD-MM-YYYY) are preserved verbatim inside cells. Re-format inside your spreadsheet of choice if you want them treated as numbers — most apps detect the patterns automatically and convert.

The separator is a comma and the encoding is UTF-8 without a byte-order mark, which suits English, Spanish, French and most Western datasets. For locales where decimal commas are common (Germany, France), open the CSV with the semicolon import option in Excel, or use the CSV-to-Excel converter in our toolbox for a styled .xlsx instead.

Yes, but they arrive in one file. If the photo contains several distinct tables, the tool detects each one and stacks them in a single CSV with a blank row between them, so split the file at the blank rows if you need to import them as separate datasets into your CRM, accounting tool or BI dashboard.

Uploads run on isolated servers, are removed under our Security policy — unless you explicitly share a result, which keeps it at a public link anyone who has it can open without automatic expiration while Pixoate provides the sharing service — and never train any model. No watermark, no attribution, no tracking, and the CSV holds your own data: You keep the rights you have in files you upload and in your original contributions to results — Pixoate does not claim ownership of them. That makes the tool safe for sales pipelines, customer lists, inventory exports and any data you would not want stored long-term.

The Default engine is tuned specifically for table structure and is the best starting point for most screenshots and photos of tables. Table AI (beta) is an experimental alternative worth trying if Default misreads a complex or borderless table; Engine 1 and Engine 2 are general-purpose OCR fallbacks useful when the table engines struggle with unusual fonts or handwriting.

Open the Language picker in the Settings panel and search for the source language of the table's text — the available languages adapt to whichever OCR engine is currently selected, since not every engine supports every language. Choosing the correct language before extraction noticeably improves character recognition accuracy versus leaving it on the default.

Yes — after extraction, the table opens in an editable grid with low-confidence cells highlighted, so you can correct any misread characters or misaligned columns directly before downloading. Use Reset in the grid to revert to the original OCR output if your edits need a fresh start, or change the engine or language, which clears the result so you can press Convert file again.

Start with the Default engine and set Language to match the document, for example French, German or Spanish — table-structure engines paired with the correct language handle most printed invoices well. If columns still come out misaligned or garbled, switch to Engine 1 or Engine 2 with the same language selected, then use the editable grid to hand-correct any remaining low-confidence cells before exporting.

Yes — the verify grid that opens after extraction has an Add row button below the table and a small trash-can icon on the left of every row, so you can insert a line the OCR skipped or remove one created by a smudge, ruled line or stray mark. These row-level edits are baked into the CSV you download alongside any text corrections you make, and hitting Reset discards them together with everything else to restore the original extraction.

Yes — Pixoate supports batch and bulk processing. Switch to Batch mode, add up to 60 images on Premium or 200 on Pro, set your options once, and every image is processed with the same settings before you download a single ZIP. Bulk processing is a Premium feature; the output uses the same quality and settings as single mode.

Yes — with bulk processing you configure the settings a single time and they apply to every item in the batch — up to 60 images on Premium or 200 on Pro. There is no need to repeat the setup per item, and Temporary uploaded and generated files are processed securely and deleted automatically.

Almost always one of three things. The file is over the 20 MB free upload limit — Premium takes 50 MB and Pro 120 MB. The format is not one this tool accepts, so check the list shown on the upload panel. Or the file is not really the format its name says: renaming a file does not change what is inside it, and that is the reason a valid-looking scan or photo gets refused.

Accuracy tracks the source image more than any setting. Shoot or scan straight on rather than at an angle, get even light with no shadow falling across the page, and fill the frame with the document. Set the language before you run it — OCR guessing the wrong alphabet is the usual cause of output that looks like nonsense. Always read the result before you rely on it.

Image to CSV supports free standard use within the published processing allowances. Free downloads are clean — no watermark. No signup is required for standard tool use. Photo effects and AI edits have a web-size limit on Free, with the original-resolution result available through Premium or one credit. Crop, resize, rotate, compress and convert stay full size. Premium supports batches of up to 60 files, with the applicable plan limits shown before processing.

No — Image to CSV runs in the browser on desktop and phone. There is nothing to install, no trial to start, and no license to buy before you can see whether it does what you need. Try it on the file you are actually stuck with rather than a sample.

Yes. After you choose Convert file, the table opens in a grid where you can read it and fix cells before any file is made. The .csv download is the export step: Premium includes it, and other accounts sign in to use their export allowance, then credits.

Yes. Open the page in your phone browser, choose the photo of the table and set Language. Choose Convert file and the grid opens as a free preview, so you can fix shaded or Unreadable cells before anything is saved. Then select See result and download the .csv. Photograph the table straight on so rows stay level.

One image gives one CSV file, and several tables sit one under another separated by a blank line. Split them at the blank lines in your spreadsheet, or crop each table with Image Cropper and convert it separately.

The upload takes images only. A PDF goes through PDF to CSV, which writes each table it finds into its own CSV and delivers them together in a ZIP. If you saved a PDF page as a picture, you can upload that picture here.

It marks a cell the reader could not read. The grid asks you to compare it with your image and replace the word Unreadable before you download. Cells shaded amber are readable but uncertain, so check those against the picture too.

Lines of text that sit outside a table are written as single-cell rows, one line per row. A picture with no table at all may be refused with a message that no table was found. For ordinary text, Image to Text gives you a cleaner TXT file.