How to Convert your Document Photos into Text Based Files – Digitize your Hand Typed Documents

Perhaps you got your hands to a very Important Document. What do you do if you want to save a copy of it in your PC. Well, the best way is to take a snapshot with a digital camera and transfer your PC. But the Limitation is that its an image and can not edit Text. So this post gives the solution to the problem.

Possibilities by Converting Photos into Text

• Create Digital Version of your Documents and also Edit Them.
• Convert Books into ebooks along with your own additions.
• Revive Old Printouts, Resumes, Newspapers etc (Just Imagine)
• and many more

How to Convert Image Based Text into Actual Text Based Files

JOCR is a freeware application that enables you to capture the image on the screen and convert the captured image to text. It is useful to revive the protected files whose text can not be copied.  JOCR enables you to copy text from any files and images on the screen such as protected Web pages, PDF files, error messages.  The program offers several capture modes.

This utility requires Microsoft Office 2003 or higher version.

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Extract text from images like never before – Very Useful !

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