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Nothing is more frustrating than finding an interesting piece of information and wanting to share it - only to find out it's just a picture of text. The good news...there is a way to select the text so it can be copied and pasted. This free software can help users turn a picture of text into real text.Lincoln Spector, writer for PC World, shares how to pull text from a picture to make it usable text.
Free OCR: Turn a picture of text into real text without spending a dime
Optical character recognition (OCR) software has been around for a long time. But for the most part, it's still cumbersome and expensive. If you only occasionally need to turn an image of text into the real thing, there's no point in buying it. So here are two simple OCR solutions that won't make you go through a complex installation or pull out your credit card.
If you're unsure about the difference between an image of text and real text, try this experiment: Double-click a word in this paragraph, copy it, and paste it into a word processor. Now try doing the same with a word in the image below. See the difference?
You may already have an OCR program. OneNote, the outliner and research organizer that comes with many versions of Microsoft Office, has had OCR capabilities since version 2007.
Read the entire article Free OCR: Turn a Picture of Text into Real Text Without Spending a Dime on PC World.
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Nothing is more frustrating than finding an interesting piece of information and wanting to share it - only to find out it's just a picture of text. The good news...there is a way to select the text so it can be copied and pasted. This free software can help users turn a picture of text into real text.
Lincoln Spector, writer for PC World, shares how to pull text from a picture to make it usable text.
