Re: convert picture to OCR ODT

[DaveMainwaring <da...@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 1:01 AM, Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie> wrote:

> > > I have a Canon Multifunction laser MF4150 from which I scanned a text
> file, which scanned as a picture, is there a way to convert it to a text
> file?
> > > Converting a BMP, JPG to a word processing file which can be edited?
>

Be careful much of the free OCR software is packed with trash and malware.


I have been doing a lot of ocr this last week. One free and simple way is
to use Google Drive. Upload/save as image down load as word doc, rtf etc. I
forgot about using Drive and bought  Nuance software which included a
converter.


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