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How to Convert Image to Text For Free With Google Drive Tutorial

Google Drive makes it painless to go paperless. Its collaborative documents, spreadsheets, and presentations already help curtail paper usage, but its OCR feature helps curb the paper mess even more. 

OCR, or Optical Character Recognition, is the most important tech to help you go paperless. Scanned documents on their own are only glorified pictures of your documents, but let your computer recognize the text and they instantly become a ton more useful. We've already looked at how to OCR documents in Adobe Acrobat:

Now if you don't have a copy of Acrobat or Word, there's an even better option: Google Drive. It includes a little-known free OCR tool that is a powerful, easy to use image to text converter. 

In this tutorial, we'll look at what is Google Drive's OCR process and simple steps to begin working with it. I'll show you how to use Google Drive to quickly convert your scanned images into editable text files online.

This Video will explain how to Convert IMAGE to TEXT using Microsoft Office.

This Option is available from Microsoft Office 2007+.

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https://www.onenote.com/

.OneNote supports Optical Character Recognition (OCR), a tool that lets you copy text from a picture or file printout and paste it in your notes so you can make changes to the words. It’s a great way to do things like copy info from a business card you’ve scanned into OneNote. After you extract the text, you can paste it somewhere else in OneNote or in another program, like Outlook or Word.

A. To extract text from a single picture you’ve added into OneNote:

1. Right-click the picture, and click Copy Text from Picture.

2. Click where you’d like to paste the copied text, and then press Ctrl+V.

B. To extract text from the images of a multiple-page file printout:

1. Right-click any of the images, and then do one of the following:

2. Click Copy Text from this Page of the Printout to copy text from only the currently selected image (page).

3. Click Copy Text from All the Pages of the Printout to copy text from all the images (pages).

C. Click where you’d like to paste the copied text, and then press Ctrl+V.

Screenshot on windows 10 using Windows Ink Workspace tutorial

Windows 10’s Anniversary Update improves on Windows 10’s stylus support with a new “Windows Ink Workspace” feature. It’s designed to make using a digital pen faster and easier with a Windows 10 tablet or convertible device.

Aside from being a dedicated launcher for pen-enabled apps, the Windows Ink Workspace includes new Sticky Notes, Sketchpad, and Screen Sketch applications. You’ll also find more options for controlling how your pen functions in the Settings app

Free PDF Compressor is a free PDF compression software to enable you to effectively reduce the size of PDF files. Software is simple and easy to use, select an existing PDF file, and hit button "Compress", a compressed PDF file will be created, page by page, a progress bar will show progress of the whole compression process. This software is completely freeware, free for personal and non-commercial use. Why is there a need to compress a PDF file? Some PDF files are large, especially PDF documents that contains many images, these files open very slowly, and are not easy to store, transfer and share. Now you can use this free PDF compression software to compress these files with an acceptable quality. At the same time, by reducing PDF files size, you can use PDF as your ebook format, easy to read PDF files on mobile phone, send by email as attachments, or upload and share with your friends. This software supports five different compression settings: Screen - low resolution, screen-view-only quality, 72 dpi images eBook - medium resolution, low quality, 150 dpi images Printer - high quality, 300 dpi images Prepress - high quality, color preserving, 300 dpi images Default - a wide variety of uses, possibly larger output file These five compression settings represent five different compression ratio, generally, you can get a smallest output file with "Screen" setting, and get a biggest output file with and "Prepress" setting. But, please note, for a few PDF files, the resulting file will be large with "Screen" setting, in this case, you need to try different settings.

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http://www.softsea.com/download/Free-PDF-Compressor.html