It can be from the web, from your PC, imported from a camera or mobile device, scanned, any image acquired in any way.įor this tutorial I have scanned my most valuable earthly possession *Wink hanging on my study wall, a lifetime lease on a square foot of land on Islay, Scotland which I received years ago as a thank you for being a devoted fan and friend of their products. Part One Copy (extract) text from an imageġ.1) Copy & Paste any image to OneNote. Part One: Copy (extract) text from an image Part Two: Make text in image searchable Part Three: A practical tip for TenForums volunteers Unfortunately this tutorial applies to desktop versions of Office OneNote 2010, 20 only the free native Windows 10 OneNote and OneNote web apps can most of what full version can but copying text from images is not supported.Ĭontents Click links to jump to any part In this short tutorial I will show one really practical feature of OneNote, extracting text from an image or a photo. See Microsoft OneNote | The digital note-taking app for your devices to get started with OneNote. The note will be added to OneNote, showing page title from where the note was taken (#1), the note itself (#2), and the link to original page (#3): Make your notes, highlight what you want to or snap a region, then save the note: You'll find an interesting site, article, tutorial, image, whatever, simply click the Web Note button: OneNote is at its best in Windows 10 with Microsoft Edge browser. It allows me to make quick notes and keep track of events far better than Sticky Notes, in itself also a good note taking app but lacking the sophisticated advanced features of OneNote.
In my opinion, the conversion accuracy of the Microsoft tools was considerably better than SimpleOCR.Click to expand. SimpleOCR was fine with normal text, but its handling of multi-column layouts was a disappointment. The converted file can be saved to a DOC or TXT format. SimpleOCR offers some control over the conversion through text selection, image selection and text ignore features.Ĭonversion to text takes the process into a validation stage a user can correct discrepancies in the converted text using an in-built spell-checker. Set it up to read directly from a scanner or by adding a page (JPG, TIFF, BMP formats). The software is clunky and looks outdated as it hasn't been updated since version 3.1, but you can still try it out for its simplicity. Machine print recognition though does not have any restrictions. But the software offers handwriting recognition only as a 14-day free trial. The problem I was having with handwriting recognition using Microsoft tools could have been solved by SimpleOCR. This is a screen capture of SimpleOCR's interface
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