Screen shot to excel converter

TLDR; Built a website that takes images of tables and converts them into formatted Excel files in under a minute.


Have been working on a website called Grabsheet (grabsheet (.) com) for the past several months with some friends who work in finance/consulting. We noticed that a decent amount of our time initially spreading numbers involved manually inputting data from tables into Excel. This wasn’t too bad for US companies on BamSEC, but particularly taking public filings from any other country or when using research reports, this could be a pain. We asked and looked around, and couldn’t find anything that seemed to quickly and securely take care of this conversion (there are a number of PDF to Excel converters online, but if you only needed a single table from a PDF or didn’t feel comfortable uploading an entire PDF to a website, the workaround was a hassle).


That’s why we built Grabsheet, where you can screenshot a table (or you can upload up to 50 at once!) and convert just that into Excel while you work on other things. You can save yourself from the data entry, and focus on setting up your spreadsheet or anything else. Grabsheet is secure, unlike some of the other free PDF converters, in that we give users control over how their data is used; we never collect data that you do not want us to. 


If you have any suggestions or feature ideas, would love to hear them :)


www . grabsheet . com

 

This is great, thanks for sharing. What would be great would be if you could create something that could back-out estimated growth numbers from a bar chart

 

I used to pay an Indian freelancer for $5/night out of pocket who could do data entry and arithmetic for me. I had to give them my capiq log in, but it was totally worth the small risk. There was one night where I had to spread comps, build a few p&l’s and summarize a ton of equity research, I enlisted 5 freelancers and only reviewed the work in the morning. Best life hack I ever had in IB

 

Pretty hard to get caught, anyone who would care about this type of behaviour would be so far removed from this that they wouldn’t even know who I am, let alone knowing what kind of work I was doing.

It was a slippery slope if I’m being honest. I started with one, and it considerably changed my work-life balance. The processes in banking are extremely archaic that other industries can produce similar work with pure automation, and cheaper. I have to say it actually accelerated my career.. I was doing more reviewing than data entry/modeling, freeing up time to polish materials and making sure everything was flawless. I also had more time to manage more work, and honestly I no longer felt the exhaustion that was taking over my life 
 

There’s a reason they say a “monkey” could this work

 

Iure harum dolorem atque perferendis ut iure voluptas. Nostrum beatae eligendi illo sed qui. Et vel neque voluptatem aut et rerum in. Qui veniam veniam hic vel repellendus. Quas facere consequatur ut magnam. Molestiae voluptate eum molestias quia exercitationem id.

Sunt voluptatem reiciendis et. Consequatur nemo pariatur sunt corrupti et commodi earum. Unde optio odio quo ut quidem in. Omnis quasi iusto incidunt maiores. Vel rem aut eum et voluptate.

Career Advancement Opportunities

March 2024 Consulting

  • Bain & Company 99.4%
  • McKinsey and Co 98.9%
  • Boston Consulting Group (BCG) 98.3%
  • Oliver Wyman 97.7%
  • LEK Consulting 97.2%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

March 2024 Consulting

  • Bain & Company 99.4%
  • Cornerstone Research 98.9%
  • Boston Consulting Group (BCG) 98.3%
  • McKinsey and Co 97.7%
  • Oliver Wyman 97.2%

Professional Growth Opportunities

March 2024 Consulting

  • Bain & Company 99.4%
  • McKinsey and Co 98.9%
  • Boston Consulting Group (BCG) 98.3%
  • Oliver Wyman 97.7%
  • LEK Consulting 97.2%

Total Avg Compensation

March 2024 Consulting

  • Partner (4) $368
  • Principal (25) $277
  • Director/MD (55) $270
  • Vice President (47) $246
  • Engagement Manager (99) $225
  • Manager (152) $170
  • 2nd Year Associate (158) $140
  • 3rd+ Year Associate (108) $130
  • Senior Consultant (329) $130
  • Consultant (586) $119
  • 1st Year Associate (538) $119
  • NA (15) $119
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (145) $115
  • Engineer (6) $114
  • 2nd Year Analyst (342) $102
  • Associate Consultant (166) $98
  • 1st Year Analyst (1046) $87
  • Intern/Summer Associate (188) $84
  • Intern/Summer Analyst (547) $67
notes
16 IB Interviews Notes

“... there’s no excuse to not take advantage of the resources out there available to you. Best value for your $ are the...”

Leaderboard

1
redever's picture
redever
99.2
2
BankonBanking's picture
BankonBanking
99.0
3
Betsy Massar's picture
Betsy Massar
99.0
4
Secyh62's picture
Secyh62
99.0
5
GameTheory's picture
GameTheory
98.9
6
dosk17's picture
dosk17
98.9
7
DrApeman's picture
DrApeman
98.9
8
CompBanker's picture
CompBanker
98.9
9
kanon's picture
kanon
98.9
10
numi's picture
numi
98.8
success
From 10 rejections to 1 dream investment banking internship

“... I believe it was the single biggest reason why I ended up with an offer...”