Program to convert text in a picture to editable text?

10 years ago

Here's one possible way:

How to Convert Image to Text For Free With Google...

It really depends on the image. Are you talking about scanned images or something created in Photoshop?

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sconer

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

Here's one possible way:
How to Convert Image to Text For Free With Google Drive - YouTube

It really depends on the image. Are you talking about scanned images or something created in Photoshop?

It's pages of typed text. I don't have a scanner so I was going to take a picture of the page with a camera.

My wife wrote a book years ago on a type writer, never tried to get it published. W'd like to put it in the computer without re-typing it all.

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Dan Riffle

10 years ago

Originally Posted by sconer

It's pages of typed text. I don't have a scanner so I was going to take a picture of the page with a camera.

My wife wrote a book years ago on a type writer, never tried to get it published. W'd like to put it in the computer without re-typing it all.

In that case, you're looking for optical character recognition software (OCR). It probably won't work perfectly, but it might be enough to get you started. Or try the Google Drive tip above, which is basically the same thing.

Wait, typewritten? I'm not sure if that'll work. Wouldn't hurt to try, though.

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dburk 10 years ago

Hi Sconer,

What you need is OCR software. There are hundreds of Apps, many are free.

You can also walk into just about any copy centernear you and use their scanners
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  Originally Posted by Dan Riffle
  
  In that case, you're looking for optical character recognition software (OCR).
  
  Originally Posted by agc
  
  You mean like OCR?
  
  Originally Posted by dburk
  
  Hi Sconer,
  
  What you need is OCR software. There are hundreds of Apps, many are free.
  
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sconer

10 years ago

Even if it needs a lot of editing, it's still better than typing from scratch. Thanks for the help.

Edit: would speech to text software work better?

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Princess Balestra 10 years ago

OCR should fix this, an' there is plenty of stuff around.

All depends on the clarity of the original.

Speech recognition can be costly, especially if you are me.

Tellya, most times all I get outta speech recognition progs is a buncha garbage looks I wrote the f*cker.
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agc

10 years ago

Originally Posted by sconer

Are there are programs out there that can convert text from an image and put it into a text file?

You mean like OCR?

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agc

10 years ago

Free Online OCR - convert scanned PDF and images to Word, JPEG to Word

free.

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sconer

10 years ago

That free OCR tool looks great things.

The reason I was thinking speech to text is because I pretty much stopped typing out text messages and use the voice feature on my iPhone which works very well. I was thinking that maybe it would work even better on a computer.