How do you convert a scanned image of numbers into an Excel file?

Answer 1

If it is an image, then it cannot be converted. As far as the computer is concerned it is a picture, not individual digits. You would have to have something scanned as text in order to be able to use the text and digits that are in it. Try scanning the document in text mode. That is not a guarantee that it will pick up the numbers, as it depends on their clarity. If it does scan them in, they may not be laid out as you want them. However once you have them as a text document, then you can try to open them in Excel. Even then it may not work out right. You may have to comma separate the original text document, to indicate the break between the numbers in order to put them into the right cells, So if you have 23,14 the 23 will go into one cell and the 14 into the one beside it. As you can see all of this can be messy and may not come out as you like, so if there aren't too many numbers in the original image, you could be better off and quicker to just type them in.