Extract text from image

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• JA

  Janat AlJamal6y agoPosted Nov 3, 2019, 10:44 PM

  
  I know this is an older post, but please allow me to provide you with some additional guidance to this issue.
  
  For convenience and quicker results, I would recommend looking at the ocr recognition provided by a professional project such as leadtools. leadtools sdk already has a lot of samples you can access, so you can test your input files and check the quality of your results on the demos hosted on the website https://www.leadtools.com/demos/html5
  
  There is also a forum post which shows you can perform OCR on your images with only a few lines of code https://www.leadtools.com/support/forum/posts/t12068-
  

  private void DoOCR(string inputFile, string outputFile, DocumentFormat format)
        {
           using (IOcrEngine ocrEngine = OcrEngineManager.CreateEngine(OcrEngineType.Advantage, false))
           {
              ocrEngine.Startup(null, null, null, null);
              ocrEngine.AutoRecognizeManager.Run(inputFile, outputFile, format, null, null);
           }
        }
• JG

  Jony Green11y agoPosted Oct 18, 2015, 11:32 PM

  You can try this free online ocr(http://www.online-code.net/ocr.html) to convert image to text free online.
• RM

  Richard Marshel12y agoPosted Jan 23, 2014, 6:04 AM

  It seems that the software you use depends on office 2007 or earlier. I'm not sure why the software you use conflicts with office 2010. You can ask the vendors of the software for the reason and the solution. If you are looking for different software, in our company, we use ePrint 6 to do the OCR and save the results as text document. We didn't face any problem when installing this software on PC that contains office at all.
• DG

  dattu gunnabathula13y agoPosted Sep 17, 2013, 2:38 AM

  It is called OCR (Optical character recognition,)
  
  

  About this service

  OCR stands for Optical character recognition. OCR software enables you to extract text from an image and convert it into an editable text document. If you need the text from an image you don't have to sit and type in the whole text. Just scan the text and then use our OCR tool to convert it into editable text.

  There are many OCR software available though, most of them have more features but, you have to install them and they are commercial and costly. It doesn't make much sense to spend so much money on it if you'd be using it once in a bluemoon.

  But don't forget that you'll want to do a sanity check on that text that's returned to you, since there are a lot of complications that can come up in the recognition and translation process. But proofreading your text is a lot faster—and easier—than having to type it all in, one character at a time.

  
  
  http://www.free-ocr.com/