OCR or Optical character recognition is an useful technology to convert an image into a machine readable text. The image can be of a scanned document or a printed text. Though the OCR software are not ...

It's not an official feature (yet), but Google Docs can perform OCR image-to-text conversions on high-resolution files you upload to it. They have to be pretty darned clear and crisp, but it's a nice ...

Google's web-based document editor can now convert the text inside your PDFs and images into text you can edit. When you upload a file to Google Docs, you'll see the option to "Convert text from PDF ...

Optical character recognition, also known as OCR, is really an amazing technology. If you aren't familiar, it takes images and reads the text on them. For PDFs, it can make the words it finds ...

I need to scan and convert text from printed documents about, oh, about once per leap year. So it makes no sense for me to own a scanner or waste hard disk space with OCR software that I virtually ...

I guarantee that at least once in your life you've had to manually type the text of a printed paper into a digital document, and I'm sure halfway through you cursed at your keyboard and wished you ...

Web: If you're a regular Google Keep user, you might have missed a (relatively) new feature in the app. If you paste an image into a note, Google lets you convert the image into editable text. Open ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is gradually becoming an essential element in any operating system environment. Streamlined through the age that it has lived, OCR has become a mainstream feature ...

For as many incredible things that our phones and computers can do, it's easy to forget that not everyone's able to interact with these systems in the same way. Google has thankfully been a ...

There are a number of reasons why you might want to extract the text from an image. Perhaps you have a business card and you want to enter the details into your Contacts, maybe you just don’t fancy ...