Table to CSV
Turn a table in a screenshot, photo or PDF into a spreadsheet.
This file is sent to a server so a vision model can read the table. If that is wrong for a particular document, don't use this one.
Drop a screenshot, photo or PDF here
A table in a screenshot, a photographed sheet or a one-page PDF export. Up to 8MB — larger images are scaled down on your device before anything is sent.
Reading the table…
That didn't work.
This browser can't display that format, so the file was sent as it is and read on the server. The grid is below.
This tool sends your file to a server to read the table. It is held in memory for the second or two that takes, never written to disk, and never kept afterwards.
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About the Pathine Table to CSV
Turns a table in a screenshot, a photograph or a PDF page into a spreadsheet you can edit and download. Headers stay headers, columns stay columns, and numbers come through as numbers — not as a wall of text you have to re-type.
This is not Image to Text. Flat OCR reads words in reading order and throws the grid away. Here the job is the grid: the same four columns every time, whether the source was a phone photo of a printed report or a one-page PDF export.
Reading a table out of a photograph well needs a vision model far too large to run in a browser tab, so the file is sent to a server, read, and the rows come back as JSON you can correct before you download. It is held in memory for the second or two that takes, never written to disk and never kept.
When you'd reach for it
A screenshot of a web dashboard
The numbers are on screen but not in a file you can open in Excel. Drop the screenshot, check the grid, download a CSV.
A printed price list or inventory sheet
Photograph the page once and you have editable columns instead of retyping every row.
A one-page PDF table
Many exports are a single page of rows and columns. Upload the PDF and take the table out without copying cell by cell.
A scan before it goes into a report
Pull the figures into a spreadsheet, fix anything the model misread, and move on.
How to turn a table into CSV
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Add your file
Drop a screenshot, photo or PDF — or choose one from your device. JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF and PDF up to 8MB.
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Wait a moment
The file is scaled down on your device when it is an image, then sent and read. Typically a second or two.
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Check the grid
The extracted table appears as an editable grid. Click any cell to fix a misread before you download.
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Download CSV
Save a real comma-separated file you can open in Excel, Google Sheets or any data tool.
Common questions
Does this send my file to a server?
Yes. Keeping columns from a photograph needs a vision model that does not run in a browser tab. The file is read on the server and discarded — it is not stored. The page says so before you upload anything.
How is this different from Image to Text?
Image to Text returns one block of words in reading order. Table to CSV returns a grid: one header row and data rows with the same number of columns, ready for a spreadsheet.
Can I edit the table before downloading?
Yes. Every cell in the preview is editable. Fix a header, correct a number, then download.
What about Excel (.xlsx)?
This tool downloads CSV, which every spreadsheet opens. A native Excel download may come later; CSV is the portable format that works everywhere today.
Will it read a multi-page PDF?
It looks for a table on the first page that has one. For a table on a later page, export or screenshot that page first.