Plain text formatted documents to Excel formatted documents

[manhattanrebel]

Is there any software available to convert plain text formatted documents into an Excel formatted documents?

 

[Domski]

Hi,

Excel has a text import wizard that helps with importing text documents into a spreadsheet format. Just open the file using File...Open and it should kick off automatically.

Dom

 

[manhattanrebel]

Thank you for the help. That information was helpful, but I need to repharse my question.
What I meant to ask is there anyway to scan say a invoice and then have that information sorted into Excel fields?

 

[Domski]

I've no experience myself of automatically processing stuff using Optical Character Recognition but I guess it's possible. We used to bulk scan invoices at my previous company but the images were sent to a comany in Mexico where they were processed manually overnight and the next day we could extract the information relating to them from our AP system.

Things may well have moved on from then but I can't help thinking that you'd run into problems with invoices all being in a different format with different info being detailed etc

Dom

 

[Joe4]

I have heard of software out there that can turn scanned PDF images into Excel files, but I think there are mixed results on how good a job they do.

If you Google "turn scanned images into Excel files", you should a bunch of promising links.