How to copy text from an image, photo or screenshot
Retyping text from a photo of a notice, a screenshot or a scanned page is slow and error-prone. OCR (optical character recognition) reads the letters in the image and turns them into text you can copy, edit and search.
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Open Image to Text (OCR) →How to do it
- Open Image to Text (OCR).
- Choose the image, screenshot or scanned PDF.
- Wait a few seconds while the text is recognised on your device.
- Copy the text or download it as a .txt file.
Getting accurate results
- Use a sharp, well-lit image where text is at least 20 pixels tall.
- Crop to just the text you need, and rotate it upright.
- High contrast (dark text on a light background) works best.
- Handwriting is much harder than print and may need corrections.
What can you use it for?
Copying quotes from book pages, pulling numbers from receipts into a spreadsheet, making scanned contracts searchable, grabbing text from a screenshot you can't select, or translating a sign by pasting the text into a translator.
For PDFs that already contain real text, PDF to Text is faster and 100% accurate.
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