OCR stands for optical character recognition. What it does is, it reads the text from an image file and extract it and reproduce it in the form of text document. Isn't it great? It is one of my favorite Google tricks. You can find many OCR tools and software on the internet to do your work. BUT this one is the best as it is not a separate software. You don't have to download anything. It is integrated in Google Docs and you can use it online using your Gmail account.
Lets suppose you have a document in hard copy and you want the same document in your computer. You don't have to write the text to get a copy in the computer too. You just scan the document and using this trick you can reproduce the document from the scanned image.
How to use the OCR feature of Google Docs?
Step 1:
You will have to sign in to Google Docs account and you will be redirected to Google drive account.
Step 2:
You will have to change the upload settings in order to use OCR .
Click on "Convert text from uploaded PDG and image files"
Now just upload the image and your work is done. Leave the rest to for google to do it. BUT the quality of the optical character recognition may not be perfect.Don't worry google is trying to improve its performance and you will get the perfect results in near future.
Step 3:
Click on the red button to upload the file.
Step 4:
Upload the file and you are done. :)
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1 comments:
It means, with this great trick I am going to change my uni handouts into soft copy? Am I right??
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