There are so many ways which allow you to perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition), in case you are not familiar with OCR, have a look at this definition – “Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used to convert ...

We talked about OCR Terminal a couple of months ago. OCR Terminal is an online tool which allows you to convert images (scanned or snapshots of any readable text) to searchable text, using the OCR Technology. You can convert the images and later you can download the same in .txt, .doc, .rtf and .pdf formats. OCR Terminal recently announced the ...

Microsoft Office OneNote has a built in OCR ( Optical Character Recognition ) which can recognize text in images accurately if its not very complex.  I tried this with several images and result is that if your image is not very complex, One note can save text from images pretty good.  Here is an example All you need to do ...

JOCR is a free software which lets you extract or copy text from any image ( image to text / OCR reader) to windows clipboard and then to notepad.  This software can be compared to any available Object Character Recognition software and it will still be competitive to them. I had been looking for this kind of tool from a ...

Trying to convert a scanned page of a book, magazine etc. to any of the digital document format like .txt, .doc, .pdf, .rtf is something we often come across or another situation of almost same kind if when you try to convert a pdf file (ebook etc.) to .txt, .rtf, .doc. No doubt there are several tools for doing these ...