OCR in Excel and what this means for your presetnations

In a customer training session yesterday, I showed a ChatGPT feature I shared with you two weeks ago: converting photos of tables or charts into editable data.

Some participants understandably raised security concerns. One attendee even surprised me by pointing out that Excel now supports OCR, enabling data extraction directly from images within the app—no need to upload sensitive information. Just go to the Data tab and select From Picture on the left.

Surprise.