It’s always good to know that technologies that were once so much expensive and not in reach for a common man are getting just free of cost on the internet.

Sometimes we do click images that have so much of text written on it. But then why waste time digitizing the text by typing.

Free OCR is an online tool which will do the work for you. Just feed the website with an image less than 2MB and it’ll automatically retrieve the text from it and will send it to your email.

We tried writing something on a Notepad, taking its screenshot and then extracting text from it.

sample_text

The conversion was not so bad. If we remove the title and the menu bar it otherwise extracted decently.

This is a sampie tEXt

For huge texts this may be very useful OCR tool. Though the results were not so great if you write something on MSPaint and then try to extract the text.