OCR is a process that converts typed or handwritten text from media such as scanned documents or photos into plain text. OCR can be used to improve the readability and accuracy of text, as well as to create digital documents and images.

OCR can be used to extract text from images, which can save you time and hassle. For example, if you’re a college student and need a specific page out of a textbook, OCR could help you extract all of the text from the image. ..

There are a number of online tools that can be used to extract text from images, and all of them require no additional software or plugins to be installed. Three of the best options are described in this article. ..

OnlineOCR

OnlineOCR is a simple and quick way to convert an image or PDF file into multiple different text formats. ..

OnlineOCR.net allows you to convert up to 15 files to text per hour, and registering for an account gives you access to features such as converting multi-page PDF documents and more.

We support converting PDF, JPG, BMP, TIFF, and GIF files to DOCX, XLSX, or TXT.

OnlineOCR.net can identify text in English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek Hungarian Italian Japanese Latin Latvian Lithuanian Moldavian Norwegian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay

The conversion process requires three simple steps. You upload a file, capped at 15 MB, select your language and output format, and click the Convert button.

When you select a file format, a plain text preview of the conversion will appear in a field below the link to download the file. This helps prevent users from wasting a download on an extraction that may be inaccurate. ..

NewOCR

OCR software can currently only extract text from image files, but it supports a few other interesting features that many online OCR providers don’t. For example, NewOCR offers the ability to automatically detect and correct common errors in scanned images, as well as to automatically identify and correct common grammar mistakes.

To extract text from an image, simply click on the blue Preview button and select the image you wish to extract text from. This will then bring up a preview of your image and present several additional options.

NewOCR is a tool that allows users to set multiple recognition languages, which can be helpful if the text in an image is written in a language that the user does not know but has a good guess about. ..

If your image is skewed to one side, you can also rotate it. To rotate the image, click the blue OCR button.

Here is the text in TXT, DOC, or PDF format: From here, you can download the extracted text in TXT, DOC, or PDF format.

OCR.space

OCR.space is a great option for anyone looking to do image-to-text conversions.

OCR.space is a great OCR tool that supports the WEBP file format. Other than that, PNG, JPG, and PDF are also supported. Additionally, you don’t have to upload a file—you can remotely link to it if it’s available somewhere online.

OCR.space is one of the only online OCR tools that supports outputting files as searchable PDFs (with visible or invisible text), and you can even choose between one of two different OCR engines for the best possible extraction. ..

You can start OCRing any file by uploading it or linking it to a page on our website. Once you’ve uploaded the file, click the Start OCR! button and a preview of your results will dynamically load on the same page. If you’ve selected your output as a searchable PDF, the Download and Show Overlay buttons will also be available.

OCR.space can output your text as JSON, which has fields that include each word in the text and their coordinates on the image itself. This is a very appreciated feature if you’re a coder out there trying to programmatically extract text from images.

With the three web tools above, extracting the text from just about any clear and legible image should be a piece of cake. Even if you’re a fast typer with multiple monitors, there’s no need to suffer through transcribing text images yourself. OCR was made for a reason, and these websites help you make the best use of it!

If you’re looking for the best OCR tools or services, or if you need help with using one of the above, feel free to reach out to us in the comments below.