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Extract text from image files using Free-OCR

If you don’t know, OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition and is mainly used to identify and extract characters from images, mostly from scanned pages.

Free-OCR is a free and easy to use web service using which you can extract text from your image files in few simple steps.

  1. Go to Free-Ocr.com.
  2. Click on the “Browse” button to upload your image.
  3. Enter the CAPTCHA code.
  4. Select the language of the text in image file from the drop down menu.
  5. Click on the “Send File’ button.
  6. Wait while your image is being uploaded on the server and it is processed.
  7. A text box containing the text extracted from the image will be shown on the next page. Now you can copy and edit this text in the way you want.

The Free-OCR supports some basic image file formats like JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP etc. The final output is almost flawless. You can try using it for any scanned image of a printed paper.

Link : Free-OCR

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3 Comments

  1. Jenny says:

    I would recommend giving OCRconvert.com a go as well, I’ve found it quite fast and accurate with my image and PDF files, also there’s no limit on the number of files that you can process.