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 ...

Windows Photo Scan app, JOCR, Gttext are similar tools that can help you extract text from images and copy them to Word or Notepad. To use OCR on the screen, you can use the Capture2Text app on ...

Google Lens (real-time or from your gallery), Keep Notes (grab image text), Microsoft Lens (OCR extraction), Google Photos’ copy text, Samsung’s built-in T icon, Chrome’s image search with ...

Bhargav Sai asked for a way to pull text out of a GIF image and make it editable. Optical character recognition (OCR) software has been around for a long time. But for the most part, it’s still ...

Before converting images to text, you need to see that there should be at least some text on the image so that it can be converted to editable text. Images can be png, jpg, or any other format.

If you want to convert images containing text into editable files and documents, you need to use something called OCR (Optical Character Recognition), a feature that’s becoming increasingly ...

Microsoft PowerToys is getting a new utility called PowerOCR that lets you select text in an image and copy it directly to the Windows clipboard. The new PowerToy is being developed by Windows app ...

Last year, though, the Snipping Tool picked up an incredible OCR image-to-text feature, allowing you to copy and paste text straight out of a screenshot with character recognition tech.

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 ...

Created by Windows app developer Joseph Finney, the feature allows users to pull text from images using OCR (optical character recognition). It is not exactly unchartered waters as OCR has existed ...