Converting a Picture into an Excel File

Python exercise for computer vision

Sutan Mufti
Towards Data Science
4 min readDec 26, 2020

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A question popped up in my head. Images are basically raster files. As a raster file, naturally, an image consists of rows and columns filled by colour values. You can see this by opening a picture in Photoshop and zoom in. Or just open the picture and zoom in, you’ll see it’ll get pixelated. So technically, an image can be converted into an excel file that also consists of rows and columns.

How to convert an image into an excel file

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software engineering for spatial data. Towards sustainable energy development. MSc Infrastructure Planning, UCL; Urban planning ITB. about.sutan.co.uk/