Scanned images and photos of documents can be easily converted to text or Microsoft Word documents. This tips comes very useful when we need to type a document from a printed document page. In this tutorial we will be taking help of OCR technology. OCR means Optical Character Recognition using this technology it is possible to recognize character from a printed document and make a soft copy of the document.
First we need to take photograph of the printed page or document using camera. In the camera use Macro mode to get best result and place the paper on flat surface. To get best result I’ll recommend you to use a scanner.
In this guide we will be using an OCR software. There are many free OCR software and some websites also offers this functionality for free. SimpleOCR is one of the best free OCR software.
First download SimpleOCR and install it on your computer.
Now start SimpleOCR and select ‘Machine Print’
In the next windows click on ‘Select’
Click on ‘Add page’
after importing the image click on ‘Convert to text’ to convert the scanned image to text document
Now the software will recognize the characters and it will show the extracted text
In the next windows you can see the image and the text document side by side. If the software had made any mistakes the you can correct it there and finally save it as a Microsoft Word documents.
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Thank you Suresh
Hello!
Thanks for this informative tutorial. You explained everything until smallest details so that even an amateur-like me, can understand in the easiest way how to convert scanned image or photos to Word document using OCR Software. Until now, i used to insert pictures to Word documents only with the Insert Picture button. I will have to try out this as well.
Thanks for the introduction to SimpleOCR, it’s a great OCR utility. Much better than other ones I’ve tried to use.
Yes, it’s good OCR software. You can also try JOCR tool with Microsoft Office to do the same thing.
This is an awesome tutorial, I will definitely try this one. Thanks for sharing
You are welcome Barbara
Nice articles.. Thanks for sharing.. Probably now i could even think of OCR utilities along with this
Interesting one. i know people who have asked me a software to convert pictures to word document. here we have one now
OCR software ..
Robin.
Exactly robin
By this software time will be saved a lot even good thing is its FREE.
Cheers
suresh