In March 2019, Microsoft announced a new innocuous-sounding Excel feature called "Insert Data from Picture" to the Excel for Android mobile app. That capability -- which could revolutionize how ...

This feature sends an image to Excel's online image-recognition engine to process and convert the words and numbers into a table. And it can convert nearly two dozen languages.

Microsoft is using artificial intelligence to convert photos of data tables into a table in Excel. Users will be able to take photos of hardcopy data and import it straight into a fully editable ...