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Program to convert text in a picture to editable text?

by sconer
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Are there are programs out there that can convert text from an image and put it into a text file?
  • Profile picture of the author Dan Riffle
    Here's one possible way:

    It really depends on the image. Are you talking about scanned images or something created in Photoshop?
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    • Profile picture of the author sconer
      Originally Posted by Dan Riffle View Post

      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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      • Profile picture of the author Dan Riffle
        Originally Posted by sconer View Post

        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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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      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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      • Profile picture of the author Dan Riffle
        Originally Posted by Dan Riffle View Post

        In that case, you're looking for optical character recognition software (OCR).
        Originally Posted by agc View Post

        You mean like OCR?
        Originally Posted by dburk View Post

        Hi Sconer,

        What you need is OCR software. There are hundreds of Apps, many are free.
        There's an echo in here.
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  • Profile picture of the author sconer
    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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    • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
      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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  • Profile picture of the author agc
    Originally Posted by sconer View Post

    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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  • Profile picture of the author agc
    Free Online OCR - convert scanned PDF and images to Word, JPEG to Word

    free.
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  • Profile picture of the author sconer
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author agc
    Just scan it to a pdf and feed it to the software.

    Be prepared to proof carefully. OCR makes plenty of mistakes.
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  • Profile picture of the author strive4build
    You can use various apps from web for fulfill your need.Thanks
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