OCR

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OCR or optical character recognition is the way in which technology can recognize individual characters and words that are written out or present in a physical document. It might be used, for example, in recognizing handwriting or text in photos and turning it into digital text for use in a personal website.

In some cases, it may also be handy in providing alt text to improve accessibility of photos which include significant text.

How To

OCR using Google Docs

From Google's documentation, PDFs and images can be opened from Google Drive by selecting "Open with > Google Docs":

The image file is converted, but the format might not transfer:

- Bold, italics, font size, font type, and line breaks are likely to be retained.

- Lists, tables, columns, footnotes, and endnotes are not likely to be detected.