{"id":9338,"date":"2019-04-03T10:41:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=9338"},"modified":"2019-04-03T10:41:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T09:41:07","slug":"ocr-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/ocr-again\/","title":{"rendered":"OCR again"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve found Office Lens<\/a> useful over the last few year in class. It is a good way to get some text into a document for editing. The workflow for me is a wee bit clunky, snap on phone, open app, upload. Then either open in word or switch to desktop and open from OneDrive there when it syncs.<\/p>\n

Today I found OCR.space<\/a> a free online service. I gave it a quick try on my phone.<\/p>\n

The first attempt failed, I had to edit the photo to B&W and brighten it a little (as per screenshots above), but the results were impressively quick. There was no swapping back and forward between apps.<\/p>\n

I’ve tried a multi-column image too using the same image I used back in 2015 with office lens. The results are just as good and fit my preference for text I can copy as opposed to a document I need to open.<\/p>\n

Here is the docx Office Lens converted<\/a>, and here is the OCR.space one<\/a>, from This image<\/a>, I had to shrink it a bit to get under 5mb for ocr.space, I don’t think Id need to do that iif I was going straight from the phone when the image would be a smaller png.<\/p>\n

I hope to give ocr.space a test in the real world next term.<\/p>\n

I’ve also found dictation on my phone a great way to get documents into text. Reading someone elses words seems to work better for me that thinking up my own as I go.<\/p>\n

I found ocr.space via OCR Shortcut : shortcuts<\/a> on reddit, butI’ve not tried the shortcut, the webpages seems quick enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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