Product Update
Ten months in: 70,000 documents and a fresh look
A personal September update: 70,000 documents converted, a refreshed website, Korean and Japanese, export documentation, and a Premium login fix.
News & Insights
Product announcements, document-conversion examples, and notes from building ScanToExcel.
Product Update
May 2026: a new OCR engine, merging, and accounting exports
The May release rebuilt the extraction engine and introduced flat and non-flat layouts, document merging, and accounting CSV exports. The converter was also updated to make those options easier to find.
Product Update
Five months in: 25,000 conversions, ZIP downloads, and email delivery
On April 24, 2026, ScanToExcel marked five months since launch and more than 25,000 conversions. This update introduced ZIP downloads and email delivery and outlined the next stage of work on the OCR engine.
Updates
Five more languages for ScanToExcel
Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, and Dutch joined ScanToExcel on February 1, 2026. With English, German, and French already available, this brought the website to eight languages.
Feature Showcase
Multi-page PDF to Excel: a worked example
This February 2026 showcase used a two-page test invoice to demonstrate conversion from a scanned PDF into an editable spreadsheet. The original input and output images are preserved below.
Product Update
Introducing Premium subscriptions
The January 26, 2026 announcement introduced paid subscriptions to help support ScanToExcel while retaining free access. This archive describes that launch rather than today’s plans.
Technology
The evolution of OCR: from recognition to structured data
OCR turns text in an image into machine-readable text. This January 2026 explainer looks at how that task relates to extracting fields and tables, and what multimodal language models changed.
Product Update
January 2026: languages, PDF improvements, and use-case pages
The January update introduced German and French versions of ScanToExcel, improvements to PDF uploads, and revised use-case pages explaining the converters.