Convert table in a jpg image to excel using python

Question

I was wondering how to convert a table that is a jpg image, such as in the link below, into an excel document.

https://www.mining.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/TOP-50-Value-mining-companies-jumps-600-billion-from-covid-lows-.jpg

What library or open-source software could be used along with python?

Answer 1

I believe you must execute OCR (optical character recognition). Tesseract and OpenCV can be used to accomplish it. Typically, the result is a structured document, however, occasionally it might even be a database that can be imported back into Python.