M icrosoft just announced new feature for Python in Excel that lets you analyze images in your spreadsheets. You no longer need outside tools—you can manipulate, analyze, and pull information from ...

This feature sends an image to Excel's online image-recognition engine to process and convert the words and numbers into a table. And it can convert nearly two dozen languages.

Microsoft Excel app on iOS gets new Insert Data from Picture tool. Users can snap photos of data presented in columns and rows and convert it into an editable Excel spreadsheet.