How to copy text from a scanned image



Most of the time, we need to copy text from scanned images but is unable to do so. Then what we do, we begin to type all the text by word in reference to the image. But there are many ways to copy text from images, using) OCR optical character recognition) technology. These some of the best ways for you.



01 using websites


20 using free software


03 using Microsoft software




Let's see 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

After installation is complete, open FreeOCR software



Click Open and select your image

Click the OCR text generation




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 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!