Invoice scanner to Excel: the scan is step one
A scanner app produces an image. Excel needs fields. The gap between them is extraction — reading vendor, number, date, tax and total from the picture.
5 documents free. PDF, photo or XML — data out as CSV, Excel or JSON.
What a scanner gives you
A clean, straight, well-lit image. That alone does not make data.
Some apps add OCR text — useful for search, not for columns.
What extraction adds
Fields: vendor, invoice number, date, net, tax, gross — placed in columns.
Arithmetic checks so an impossible total does not reach the ledger.
Batch from a phone
Shoot twenty receipts in a row, upload once, get one sheet.
That is the whole workflow most small businesses actually need.
Where scanners still win
Multi-page contracts and documents you need to read visually.
Anything where the layout matters more than the numbers.
Frequently asked
Do I need a special scanner?
No. A phone photo is enough, as long as the page is flat and lit.
Does scanning cost anything?
Yes: scans are €0.07 per page. E-invoices are free to read.