Most of the time, we need to copy the text from scanned images but unable to do that. Then what we do, we start by typing the entire text word by word in reference to the image. But there are many ways to copy text from the image, using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology. Here are some of the best ways for you.
01 using websites
new ocr
free online ocr
free ocr
online ocr
02 using free software
FreeOCR
Simple OCR
03 using Microsoft software
Microsoft Office OneNote
Microsoft Office Document Imaging
Let's look at one example of each category
Newocr.com
» Go to this link
» Click Choose file and select image file
» Click the Send file to generate text
» After simply copy and paste your text.
FreeOCR Software
» Download from this site for free - paperfile
» After installation is complete, open FreeOCR software
» Click Open and select your image
» Click on the OCR to generate text
Microsoft Office OneNote
» Run Microsoft Office OneNote.
» Simply copy the image (any format either JPG, BMP, PNG, etc) and paste it into OneNote. Do not use Open with the image it gives error.
» Now select the whole image and right click on the page.
» Click Copy text from picture option
Enjoy!
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