This online OCR program supports conversions including JPG to TXT, PNG to TXT, GIF to TXT, BMP to TXT, TIFF to TXT, etc. OCR (Optical character recognition) is the mechanical or electronic conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene-photo or from subtitle text superimposed on an image. Using Optical Character Recognition (OCR), OneNote for Mac can extract the text it recognizes in photos, screenshots, and scans so you can paste it. Setting to choose the folder the text file is exported to instead of temporary folder. You can also switch on the keyboard shortcut to make it easier. Then click the menu icon and it will give a new option to perform OCR on that image. Click icon to show file QR code or save file to online storage services such as Google Drive or Dropbox. Right click on any image/PDF in finder, browser or preview and 'Copy image'. The output files will be listed in the 'Conversion Results' section. Click the 'Convert Now!' button to start conversion.

It supports more than 100 languages such as Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, German, English, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish.Ĥ. The alternative engine supports more file formats such as scanned PDF document as source format and editable Word document as output format.ģ.

The default engine is Tesseract-ocr which is a popular open-source project. When using the default OCR engine, the source file format can be JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP or TIFF.

Click the 'Choose file' button to select a file on your computer or click the dropdown button to choose an online file from URL, Google Drive or Dropbox.

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