How to extract text from images with Online OCR

If you scanned text from a magazine or book and now you need to transcript it on a text editor or something, no need to give yourself such job, just use Online OCR, a free online service that allows you to extract text from JPEG or PNG images and PDF documents.

To extract text from images and save them in a editable text file, Online OCR uses an optic character recognizing (OCR) that can recognize text from digital images.

Extract text from images with Online OCR is very easy and simple. To get started, you just need to access the OCR online website, click “Select a File” and select the image or PDF document that contains the text you want to extract.

In the next step, select the text language and the final format. Online OCR supports many languages and allows you to save the extracted text in the DOCX, XLSX and TXT format.

Lastly, type the number shown in the field “Enter Captcha Code” and click the button “Convert” to perform the text images extraction. Generally, the extraction process is very fast.

When finished, it shows a preview of the text extracted from the image. Click the “Download Output File” link to download the archive with the extracted text in the previously defined format.

Although it doesn’t require you to sign up in order to use the service, creating a “Free Account” would bring you more benefits, such as sending articles with more than 200 MB, save in other formats and extract PDF documents with multiple pages.

To summarize, Online OCR is a great option for image and PDF document text extraction. The extraction quality is great and saves you some time to transcript all the text from your PDF document or image.