Convert handwritten tables to Excel without retyping a cell
Lido converts handwritten tables to Excel and keeps the grid: headers stay headers, columns stay columns. Upload a photo, get a spreadsheet.
Headers and totals land in the right cells
Converts handwritten table images to Excel, straight from a phone photo
Works on pencil grids and ruled notebook pages
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Upload a photo of the table and get the rebuilt spreadsheet in seconds.
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The invoice format is very, very difficult. Handwritten. In Vietnamese. Lido works perfectly.
Ellie Ho
Sr. Accounting Manager
No templates or training. Just describe what you need.
Our drivers just like to hand write everything. We had 6 FTEs just processing driver tickets until we found Lido.
Handwritten tables are everywhere paper still wins: warehouse inventory counts, kitchen prep sheets, production logs, lab notebooks, scorekeeping, field inspection grids. Converting a handwritten table to Excel takes two technologies working together, table detection to find the grid and handwritten text recognition (ICR) to read what's in each cell. Most OCR tools do neither well, which is why the usual workflow is squinting at a photo while retyping into a spreadsheet. Lido replaces that: upload the table as an image, scan, or PDF, and the rebuilt version lands in Excel, Google Sheets, or CSV with its rows and columns intact.
Frequently asked questions
How do I convert a handwritten table to Excel?
Upload a photo, scan, or PDF of the table. Lido detects the grid, reads each cell, and rebuilds the whole thing as a spreadsheet. The output arrives in Excel format, or you can send it to Google Sheets or download a CSV.
Does it keep the table structure?
Yes, and that's the difference from generic OCR, which returns a wall of text you then re-sort by hand. Lido maps every handwritten cell to its row and column, so a 40-line inventory count opens in Excel looking like the paper original.
What kinds of handwritten tables can it read?
Inventory counts, timesheets, production logs, lab records, scores kept on paper. Faint pencil and ballpoint both work. Disney Trucking's driver tickets include handwritten grids, and Lido reads 360,000 of those pages a year.
How accurate is it on dense tables?
99%+ at the field level. Every cell carries a confidence score, so if the AI hesitates on a smudged number you'll see it flagged instead of silently wrong. You review a handful of cells, not the whole sheet.
What if the table has no ruled lines?
Lido doesn't need printed gridlines. It infers the grid from how the writing is arranged, which is how it handles tables sketched in notebooks or photographed off a whiteboard. If a person can tell it's a table, Lido can rebuild it.
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