Table to Image Generator

Fill in the grid, or paste a table from anywhere, and download it as an image. The table is drawn rather than screenshotted, so the whole thing comes out however long it is.

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Nothing here is uploaded. The parsing happens on this page.
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The output will appear here once there is a table to convert.

Why not just take a screenshot

A screenshot captures what fits on the screen. A table with two hundred rows becomes a picture of the first thirty, and there is no way to get the rest into one image without stitching several together by hand.

A screenshot is also whatever resolution your display happens to be. Here the scale is a control, so a table meant for a slide or a print layout can be drawn at two or three times the size and stay sharp.

PNG or JPEG

PNG for anything with text in it. It compresses without loss, so the letters stay crisp and the table rules stay one pixel wide.

JPEG compresses by throwing away detail around sharp edges, which is exactly what text and table rules are made of. The result has visible fuzz around every character. Use it only when something you are uploading to refuses PNG.

JPEG also has no transparency, so a background colour is always painted. That is why the background control exists rather than defaulting to none.

What you lose

Everything that made it data. An image cannot be sorted, searched, summed or pasted into a spreadsheet. If the recipient might want to work with the numbers, send them the table and the image, or just the table.

Questions

How do I turn an Excel table into an image?

Drop the workbook into the converter on this page, or copy the cells and paste them into the box. The clipboard carries tab-separated text, which is detected automatically. Then pick PNG and download.

Is the whole table drawn, even the part off screen?

Yes. The image is drawn from the data rather than captured from the page, so the number of rows on screen has nothing to do with what comes out.

Can I get the data back out of the image?

Not here. An image of a table is pixels, and reading it back needs optical character recognition, which is a different job with a different failure rate. Keep the original.

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