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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Extract text from image files using Free-OCR


If you don’t know, OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition and is mainly used to identify and extract characters from images, mostly from scanned pages.
Free-OCR is a free and easy to use web service using which you can extract text from your image files in few simple steps.
  • Go to Free-Ocr.com.
  • Click on the “Browse” button to upload your image.
  • Enter the CAPTCHA code.
  • Select the language of the text in image file from the drop down menu.
  • Click on the “Send File’ button.
  • Wait while your image is being uploaded on the server and it is processed.
  • A text box containing the text extracted from the image will be shown on the next page. Now you can copy and edit this text in the way you want.
  • The Free-OCR supports some basic image file formats like JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP etc. The final output is almost flawless. You can try using it for any scanned image of a printed paper. 


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