How to Extract Text From Image/Pictures | Easiest Method | No software Required
Hi Friends,We may come across the situation when we need to extract text from images, or we may need to convert some scanned copy into text.
Converting the scanned copy to text is done using Optical Character Recognition Software which is not free most of time.
You need to spend some good amount of money to get them and convert images to text.However paying the hefty price just for a single usage does not seems to be a good idea.
In this video, I will show you how to extract text from Image for free using Google Drive!
Google Drive provides you the OCR technology and we make use of it to convert images to text.
Let us see steps which we need to follow to convert images to text or to convert PDF files to text.
On your computer, go to drive dot google dot com.Login with your google account.
Click on the New button and select File Upload to upload images file which you want to convert to text.
Select the particular image file and it gets uploaded to Google Drive.
Once the files gets uploaded, right click on the image file and move towards Open with Google Docs.
Now, new tab opens with the image surrounded by the blue border and the corresponding editable text at the bottom.
You can resize the blue border, based on the content which you want.
Once you are sure about the required content, remove the image from the tab, save the remaining text and close the tab.Once converted, you have an option to edit it in Google Drive, or download it in your preferred format and edit in your computer with your favourite text editor.
Please note that the accuracy of the text transcribed may vary depending on the quality of the image being read from the words in it. Clear images with high contrast are likely to give best results.
Also, do note that you can only upload a file sized 2MB and below, and only the first ten pages of a PDF file will get converted. If you have a PDF file with tons of pages, do split it into several files before uploading.
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