How To Copy and Extract Text From Images

29 Nov 2014

How To Copy and Extract Text From Images

By abhishek
29 Nov 2014
Tags: how

Do you feel it is very essential to have a text version of your scanned documents. Then there is actually several ways to extract text from picture. If you google it, you will find plenty of software offering the solution for same. Behind all these, there is a system called Optical character recognition(OCR), Now it depends upon your picture quality i.e resolution, letter size in picture etc, that how well it can recognise. I have two commendable alternatives for this purpose.

1.Microsoft OneNote

Open microsoft Office oneNote and Drag and Drop the image, Right Click on the image>Copy Text from Picture, then paste it any where.

2.ONLINE OCR

As the name suggest, it is a online service, you have to upload the picture file(JPG, BMP, TIFF, GIF), and press convert. Then wait till it gives the output in the format you have chosen (Plain Text, microsoft Word or Excel)

Feel free to suggest other methods, if better than this.