Photo Scan is a handy Windows 10 app for those times you need to pull text from images. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Say you ...

You may not think about them until you need them, but PDFs run this show. They’re the 3rd most popular file type on the internet, beating JPEGs and GIFs. PDFs defeated cat GIFs, and they’re one of the ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology allows editing text in a graphic image or scanned document. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, computerize an office ...

There are a number of reasons why you might want to extract the text from an image. Perhaps you have a business card and you want to enter the details into your Contacts, maybe you just don’t fancy ...

Free web-based converter PDF-to-Word turns static PDF files into edit-friendly Word documents with surprising, reliable accuracy. It's in closed beta right now, but Lifehacker readers can get in early ...

Got a bunch of scanned documents in PDF format but lack for good text-converting OCR software? Google is now indexing their text conversions of PDFs, which means anyone with access to open web space ...

Scanning with your iPhone is almost as quick as taking a photo, and way more useful down the line. Photo: Cult of Mac Paper is still great for a lot of things. It’s lightweight, it’s fairly ...

The tried-and-true copy/paste combo is a staple of productivity but that can grind to a halt when you need to quickly grab text from the real world or existing screenshots and pictures. Read along for ...

Scanning printed financial documents into Excel will allow you to edit them just as you would any other Excel file. This is achieved by scanning the document and then using OCR (optical character ...