Extract text from images (Optical Character Recognition)

Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the mechnism of conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into a text document.The input to this technique could be a scanned document, photo of hand written document, billboards in a landscape photo) or from subtitle text superimposed on an image (for example: from a television broadcast). The output from this process will be simple text extract from the images. There are multiple techniques which are available online which provides well formed document as output
Multiple websites are available online which could be used to extract text. For e.g. refer the below mentioned site https://miniimagesvideos.com/ocr_online

Use the following steps to extract text from image
  • Go to the URL

  • Click the upload button to select the file. If you are using desktop then drag drop feature can be used to upload file

  • The output will be generated in text format

  • Please note for table tab seperated content will be generated

  • Click on the download link below thumbnail to dowload extract in the required text format

  • This OCR process can support 80+ language. For e.g. Arabic OCR, German OCR, French OCR, Spanish OCR etc
    Please note following are always are very useful tricks to ensure a high quality output
  • Format: You can convert .JPEG, .PNG, .GIF, or PDF (multipage documents) files.

  • File size: The file should be 6 MB or less.

  • Resolution: Text should be at least 10 pixels high.

  • Orientation: Documents must be right-side up. If your image is facing the wrong way, rotate it

  • Image quality: Sharp images with even lighting and clear contrasts work best.
  • To support the multi lingual the following links can be used for indonesia https://miniimagesvideos.com/id_ocr_online

    Comments