Microsoft has released an update for its Office apps, including one particularly useful feature for Excel on Android: automatic data capture from images. The new tool, which will also be arriving ...

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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's old standby spreadsheet app, Excel, has a new trick for importing lots of data from hard copies quickly. It just takes a few steps to use.