ExtractTable: Convert Tabular Data From Images

Home website page of ExtractTable highlighting features and drag-and drop feature to extract table content.

Longtime readers of this blog know I love sharing helpful tools and technology tips.

When my friend Amy Carney told me she successfully used an online tool I suggested, ExtractTable, I was thrilled!

ExtractTable is an online tool that extracts tabular data from images.

It saves hours of time for designers and developers who receive PDFs/images and need to extract table content, but have no access to the original source of the content. Continue reading ExtractTable: Convert Tabular Data From Images

Getting Ready for a Change, Not a Redesign

A person typing on an open laptop computer.

I’ve been planning to change this website’s appearance and theme for over two years.

But like other designers and developers, my client projects took priority.

And my own site fell down the list of things to get done.

Until August 2020, in the middle of the COVID pandemic, when I finally sat down to plan the changes I wanted to make on my site. Continue reading Getting Ready for a Change, Not a Redesign

Photo of the Week: Wilson’s Phalarope at Lake Erie Metropark

Brown and white shorebird with long black bill partially hidden in the tall, wet green grasses.

Along with dozens of other birders in southeast Michigan and beyond, I traveled to Lake Erie Metropark in Brownstown Township, Michigan in late May to look for the slender Wilson’s Phalarope, a rare shorebird for Wayne County, Michigan.

Smaller and more slender than a Killdeer, the Wilson’s Phalarope has a needle-thin black bill, cinnamon colored neck, white breast, broad black strip on the gray back, with lanky black legs during breeding season. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Wilson’s Phalarope at Lake Erie Metropark