One of the great things about Office 365 is its constant updates and new features. Buried in Feburary’s update post is a handy feature for your mobile device: Convert a Photo to a Spreadsheet. This new feature in the Excel for Android app (coming soon to iOS) allows you to take a picture of a printed table of data and have it convert to a fully editable table in Excel. This new image recognition functionality eliminates the need for your to manually enter hardcopy data:

If you’ve ever had to manually enter a bunch of printed out data, you know this will save you a ton of time.

This is powered by Microsoft’s push to add more AI features to Excel. While the service isn’t perfect, it is certainly a step in the right direction and a fun feature to play with.