How to extract text from image (hard copy) very easily

Most of the time we go through a lot of hardcopies of documents or any other informative documents and we find that information interesting and feel the need to share that information with your dear ones. You must have many ways to share this information.

One of them will be just by clicking a picture of it and directly sharing that picture. But in this case sharing a high definition picture takes lots of bandwidth and for some people who have slow internet connection, sharing a picture is a difficult job.

Another way to send information is by extracting text from pictures and sending it. This serves as a very much easy and convenient way of sharing information because by pulling text from an image file, copy the text and send it. You get editable text which you can use in creating word documents also, it's like converting image to word. So, this is very very helpful when you find some information in the form of hard copies and you have to convert it into text within like 1 minute.

There are multiple text extractor tools (image to text converter tools), online tools as well as offline tools by using which you can extract text from an image, scanned image, scanned document, pdf document. When using optical character recognition software (ocr tool) or free online ocr tool, you just need to upload the image from your device storage, that could be from your internal storage or from google drive and ocr tool will generate text and give it to you for you to use it.

In this article, we will be focusing on extracting text from a hard copy document into your smartphone. So, let's have a look at the steps to extract text from an image very easily.

Steps to extract text from image

You need to download and install Google search application on your smartphone. On Android you must have a Google application already installed on your smartphone but in case if you don't have Google search Application installed then you will need to download it from Google Play Store, for iOS you will need to download and install Google search Application from the App Store. Below is the logo of Google search application for your reference.
Open Google search application on your smartphone and click on Google lens logo as shown in image.
After clicking on Google lens you will be directed to camera (Google Lens application), just place your camera on the document you want to extract text from.
Click on select all and then click on copy text.
Paste the copied text wherever you want, i.e. paste on Microsoft Word, Google Notes etc.

You have successfully extracted text from a hard copy document and successfully used on your digital document.

Thanks for reading this Article, I hope you have understood how to extract text from images or hard copy documents. Don't forget to share it with your friends and family so that they can also get to know about it.

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