Do you feel it is very essential to have a text version of your scanned documents. Then there is actually several ways to extract text from...Read more

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Do you feel it is very essential to have a text version of your scanned documents. Then there is actually several ways to extract text from picture. If you google it, you will find plenty of software offering the solution for same. Behind all these, there is a system called Optical character recognition(OCR), Now it depends upon your picture quality i.e resolution, letter size in picture etc, that how well it can recognise. I have two commendable alternatives for this purpose.

  1.Microsoft OneNote

Open microsoft Office oneNote and Drag and Drop the image,  Right Click on the image>Copy Text from Picture, then paste it any where.

2.ONLINE OCR

As the name suggest, it is a online service, you have to upload the picture file(JPG, BMP, TIFF, GIF), and press convert. Then wait till it gives the output in the format you have chosen (Plain Text, microsoft Word or Excel)


 
Feel free to suggest other methods, if better than this.

Image of google as on 2 December 1998      It was while i was surfing the Internet, i found this amazing website called web.archive....Read more

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Image of google as on 2 December 1998

     It was while i was surfing the Internet, i found this amazing website called web.archive.org  here you can track any website's past, provided it had automatically crawled(saved) that website in the past. or you can volunteer to do so by saving the website or webpage for future.
 If you are a blogger or maintains a site, it proves as a useful tool too. they say they had saved 435 billion webpages. I found my blog there only saved 3 times.

Image of Yahoo as on 2 October 1996