Save to Excel

Save text from a scanned document into an Excel spreadsheet.

This command can be used only within an OCR: Documents container.

  1. Select option for laying out the document in Excel:

    • Preserve layout:

      Maintain rows and columns from scanned document. For cells in the scanned document containing more than one line of text, place each line of text into a separate row.

    • Preserve division into rows and columns:

      Maintain rows and columns from scanned document. For cells in the scanned document containing more than one line of text, maintain as a single cell (with line breaks).

    • Do not preserve layout:

      Place all text from scanned document into a single column in Excel.

  2. Select the folder into which to save the Excel file.

  3. Enter the name of the variable into which to save the full file path of the Excel file.

  4. Instruct the wizard how to handle any errors encountered. Read more about error handling.