Windows only: Your scanner probably came with OCR software. Chances are, though, it's both awkward and space-hogging. FreeOCR is an slim, efficient app that has just four main buttons, and performs ...

Have you run into situations where you need to grab text from a screenshot or image you downloaded? Doing so used to take ...

The cloud storage service can extract text from photos taken with Windows Phone devices, useful for shots of business cards, train schedules, and memos. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Microsoft's OneNote for Windows 8.1 has seen a considerable update, adding the ability to "scan" a document or image using a tablet's camera, apply optical character recognition to search through text ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is gradually becoming an essential element in any operating system environment. Streamlined through the age that it has lived, OCR has become a mainstream feature ...

Converting a scanned document to editable text is a handy trick that can save you hours of retyping documents. Free OCR converts your documents for free. To use Free OCR you need to have your document ...

Acrobat Professional has OCR capabilities that allow you to save scanned documents in Rich text format or as Microsoft Word Documents, both Doc and Docx. There may be an instance when you open the ...