About QuickScan

QuickScan: Image to Excel OCR is an iPhone app that turns a photo or screenshot of a printed table into an Excel (.xlsx) or CSV file. It reads the table on the iPhone itself: nothing is uploaded, and there's no account.

There are several apps called “QuickScan”. This one is the table-to-spreadsheet app by Wiktor Tendera, App Store ID 6757146630, for iPhone with iOS 17.2 or later.

Who makes it

QuickScan is built and maintained by Wiktor Tendera, a software engineer and product manager with over ten years of industry experience. He studied Computer Science at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, worked as a software engineer across several product teams, and joined Revolut in 2019, where he went on to lead product for security and financial-crime prevention at Revolut Business as a Senior Product Manager. He also makes PrivyClean, an app that removes hidden metadata from photos and documents on the device.

Profiles: LinkedIn · PrivyClean · App Store developer page

Why it exists

Tables still arrive on paper — price lists, delivery notes, statements, timetables, stock reports — and someone retypes them into a spreadsheet. The tools that turn a photo into cells mostly upload the photo to a server, which is exactly what you don't want for a bank statement or a customer list. QuickScan does the reading on the phone.

How it works

• Text recognition uses Apple's on-device Vision framework, so the photo never leaves the iPhone.
• Table detection is QuickScan's own: it straightens the page, finds ruling lines and column alignments, groups words into rows and cells, keeps headings whole, and repairs decimal separators that text recognition misreads using the document's own number format.
• Checking: cells the app is unsure about are highlighted, so you look at those first; tap to fix, long-press a row to delete it.
• Export writes an Excel file with numbers stored as numbers and codes kept as text, or a CSV for other systems.

Changes to the reading engine are measured against a fixed set of real table photos and screenshots — invoices, statements, timetables, spreadsheets, handwriting — so they're judged by results, not by eye.

What it doesn't do (yet)

• Handwriting is often misread: check every cell if you try it.
• PDFs that need a password to open can't be read: take a screenshot of the page. Up to 10 PDF pages are read per scan.
• It reads tables, not labelled fields: it won't pull an invoice number or a due date into its own column.

Check the privacy yourself

Switch on Airplane Mode and scan a table: it works exactly the same, because nothing is sent anywhere. The app has no account, no analytics and no advertising. Details: privacy policy.

About the guides on this site

The guides are written to answer real questions about getting tables into spreadsheets — including problems that have nothing to do with QuickScan. They're drafted with the help of AI tools, then checked against the current version of the app and against the sources they link (Microsoft's and Apple's own documentation where it exists). Each page shows when it was last updated. If something is wrong or out of date, email wiktortendera@gmail.com and it gets fixed.