If you don’t see the tabs or icons click the Ribbon Display Options button to the immediate left of the Minimize button in the top right of the application window and choose “Show Tabs and Commands. " On Mac you can just use the menus at the top of the screen, so the tabs aren’t necessary. Hover your mouse cursor over the buttons to see what they’re called.
You can also choose File Printout rather than Image to extract text from the printout of a document. [5] X Research source As an alternative, press the ⎙ PrtScr button on your keyboard to capture an image of your current screen, then paste it into your document using Ctrl+V (or ⌘ Cmd+V on a Mac). Text in the image that you are extracting from needs to be typeset for good OCR recognition. [6] X Research source
On Windows, if instead of an image you choose File Printout in Step 2, right-clicking on one page of the printout will result in two alternate choices here: “Copy Text From This Page of the Printout” or “Copy Text From All Pages of the Printout” – select the one you want.
You can select the text using your mouse cursor and then pressing Ctrl+C (or ⌘ Cmd+C on a Mac). Alternatively, you can right-click (or Ctrl+click on a Mac) the text and choose “Copy. " If you have saved the extracted text and are accessing it from a non-desktop version of OneNote, Instructions will vary significantly for copying and pasting. On Android, for example, you need to press and hold on part of the text you’re wanting, use the resulting “handles” on either side to select all the text, and press the Copy or Cut button (the icons are of two pages on top of one another and of a pair of scissors, respectively).
You may want to save the document immediately before editing so you can go back to the original, unedited text.
Scanner-included software: If you have a scanner and still have the software that came with it, it probably includes OCR text extraction capabilities. Instructions should have come with the scanner or you should be able to look them up online for a relatively modern scanner. Free Websites: These ad-driven but functional Websites typically take TIF, GIF, PDF, JPG, BMP, PNG or some combination. They often have limits (such as 5MB) to the size of files you can upload. Some sites will email you a Word document or other file containing the text of your image for free, others will simply provide the text for you to copy. A few include: Free-ocr. com[7] X Research source Onlineocr. net[8] X Research source High-cost OCR software: Some OCR software costs up to $500 to purchase; consider these only if you need extremely highly accurate OCR results. Some of the more popular can be found at TopTenReviews. com or similar sites; several of the top currently include:[9] X Research source Omni Page Standard Adobe Acrobat ABBYY Fine Reader Free software; it is likely that these solutions will not work with larger images and many don’t work beyond more than the first page of a PDF: FreeOCR[10] X Research source Simple OCR[11] X Research source Free OCR To Word[12] X Research source
