Windows Tip: OneNote OCR
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises
Occasionally I need to extract some text from an image, and typically you need some form of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to do this. Since I spend a lot of my time in the 2007 Office System family of products however, it would be nice if there was some built-in functionality that could serve this purpose. Well, it turns out that there is -- I just discovered that Microsoft OneNote 2007 includes an OCR feature called Copy Text From Picture, and you can use this method to copy text from all kinds of images including scanned documents like the kind you typically find on a site like The Smoking Gun. ...continue reading 'OneNote OCR'
Occasionally I need to extract some text from an image, and typically you need some form of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to do this. Since I spend a lot of my time in the 2007 Office System family of products however, it would be nice if there was some built-in functionality that could serve this purpose. Well, it turns out that there is -- I just discovered that Microsoft OneNote 2007 includes an OCR feature called Copy Text From Picture, and you can use this method to copy text from all kinds of images including scanned documents like the kind you typically find on a site like The Smoking Gun. ...continue reading 'OneNote OCR'
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