Gboard for Android is beginning to roll out a rather nifty “Scan Text” optical character recognition (OCR) tool. Scan Text appears in the grid of Gboard capabilities and can be dragged to the toolbar ...

I need to scan and convert text from printed documents about, oh, about once per leap year. So it makes no sense for me to own a scanner or waste hard disk space with OCR software that I virtually ...

Converting a scanned document to editable text is a handy trick that can save you hours of retyping documents. Free OCR converts your documents for free. To use Free OCR you need to have your document ...

The digital world has a lot of benefits, and the best Android OCR Apps has made it possible to scan printed documents for text and images (to keep a copy on your Android phone) is one of the many ...

In the relentless quest for a truly paperless workspace, our smartphones have become the new file cabinets. The mobile scanning application is now a critical piece of software, tasked with turning ...

The popular Scanner Pro iOS app from Readdle is out with a notable update. It brings a really useful automated OCR feature, a fresh modern design including a new list view and sorting options, as well ...

Optical Character Recognition provides a nearly automated means of digitizing text from scanned pages, eliminating the need to retype them. Adobe Acrobat Professional includes OCR capabilities that ...

Tech help site Of Zen and Computing describes how to use Microsoft Office to do Optical Character Recognition (OCR)—that is, recognize text inside digital images (like scanned documents). The ...

Acrobat Professional has OCR capabilities that allow you to save scanned documents in Rich text format or as Microsoft Word Documents, both Doc and Docx. There may be an instance when you open the ...

In the following sections, we will show you how to enable or disable ‘auto-scan images for text’ in the Microsoft Photos app. However, before that, please note that the update is currently released ...