OCR Tools To Convert Your Files Back Into Editable Documents

Google Docs has integrated OCR support. It uses the same OCR engine that Google uses to scan books and understand text in PDF files.

To get started, open the Google Docs website and start uploading a file. You can’t scan directly from your scanner into Google Docs; you’ll have to scan the document as an image or PDF file first. If you don’t have a scanner, you can try scanning a document with your smartphone’s camera.

Enable the “Convert text from PDF and image files to Google documents” check box when you upload the file.

After you upload the file, it will appear as a new text document in Google Docs.

Google Docs did a pretty good job here. It struggled to understand the web addresses, but all these tools did.

Unlike many free online OCR tools, like Free OCR (which is different from the FreeOCR below), Google Docs doesn’t have any limits on the amount of pages you can upload.

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