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Screenshot to spreadsheet

A screenshot is a picture, so the numbers inside it cannot be sorted, filtered, or summed. GridFiller reads the table in your screenshot and rebuilds it as a real spreadsheet you can edit and export.

Why screenshots are hard to reuse

Most tabular data ends up as a screenshot for practical reasons: the source system has no export button, the data lives inside a report someone shared in chat, or the only copy is a capture from a colleague's screen. The information is all there, but it is stored as pixels.

Retyping is the usual fallback, and it is where mistakes creep in — a transposed digit in a price column or a shifted row in a stock list is easy to make and hard to spot later.

How GridFiller converts a screenshot into a spreadsheet

  1. 1. Upload the screenshot

    Drag a PNG, JPG, JPEG, WEBP, or PDF into the upload area. Files up to 20MB are supported, and you can add up to 20 at once.

  2. 2. Pick how sources are combined

    For a single screenshot there is nothing to decide. For several, choose align by headers, append rows, or keep separate with your own sheet names.

  3. 3. Let the vision model read the table

    GridFiller detects the header row, the column boundaries, and each cell value, including columns that are only implied by alignment.

  4. 4. Review and correct in the editor

    The result opens as an editable grid. Fix anything the model misread, rename columns, and delete rows you do not need.

  5. 5. Export to CSV or XLSX

    Download the finished table and open it in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, or anything else that reads CSV.

What GridFiller handles well

  • Tables captured from web apps, dashboards, and admin panels
  • Report and invoice screenshots with a clear header row
  • Multi-part captures of one long table, stitched back together by appending rows
  • Several unrelated tables kept on separate sheets in one workbook
  • Mixed sources — a screenshot and a PDF page in the same job

Review the output before you rely on it

AI extraction is not perfect, and the quality of the source image matters. Blurry captures, unusual fonts, merged cells, and columns without a visible separator are the common causes of a misread value.

GridFiller is built around that reality: every conversion opens in an editor first, so correcting a handful of cells is part of the normal flow rather than an exception. If a result is far off, you can re-run the same files with a different merge strategy.

Common questions

What kind of screenshots work best?
Screenshots where the text is legible at full size. Crisp captures of dashboards, reports, invoices, and web tables work well; heavily compressed or very small screenshots are harder to read.
Can I combine several screenshots into one spreadsheet?
Yes. You can upload multiple screenshots in one job and choose how they are combined: align by headers, append rows, or keep each source on its own sheet.
What formats can I export?
CSV and XLSX. Multi-sheet XLSX is produced when you choose the keep-separate merge strategy.

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