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Optimizing the Conversion of Scanned Documents to Excel with Power Query
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BEN AMOR Safoine

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November 20, 2024 - 3:48 am
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I have several scanned documents to convert into Excel files—thousands of pages. As a first step, I used an application to convert the images into readable text. Then, using Power Query, I extracted the tables. My problem is that Power Query doesn’t correctly identify the columns and splits a single column into multiple ones. Is there a solution to speed up the process?

I created an example using a document from the internet.
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Difficult to judge without seeing examples of the scanned/converted files you are working with.

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