Extracting text from an image

Hi Kyle,

What you are looking for is called Optical Character Recognition. Whether it will be enough is the question. OneNote has OCR built into it, but is far from the only choice.

One that is highly respected is ABBYY Finereader.

https://www.abbyy.com/en-us/finereader/what-is-...

You can download a free trial from here:

https://www.abbyy.com/en-us/finereader/

Note also that OCR, while much better than it was 5 years ago, is far from perfect.

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Hi Kyle, 

Converting text from images to digital is what OCR technology does. Yes you are correct, OneNote has OCR built-in  and helps to convert image text to digitized text. But in real scenario it is evident that to extract data from a image documents which are text, table, check box etc. of different layout types needed complex algorithm. you can read more from internet on this.

There would be many in the industry whic provides data extraction from images, but few those I know very good are as follows:

1. Nuance - OmniPage SDK : : This is an OCR library SDK (Software Development Kit). you can develop your own OCR solution using this OmniPage OCR SDK.  Nuance data extraction Custom solutions: Nuance also provides custom solution using its OCR engine which is again both on-premise and on cloud. 
2. ABBYY FineReader , FlexiCapture SDK : This is same as above.
3. Free SDK that you can use to develop your own OCR Solution are :

MODI - Microsoft Office Document Imaging OCR engine

Google - Tesseract

4. Another one is End to End OCR on-premise solution is using DigiContext which is a product of http://GetNext.co.in team. This solution has capability to integrate ABBYY Fine Reader, Nuance Omnipage , MODI in a single configuration. So you visit their web site and connect with them for more information.

Regards

Niranjan

The following is an illustration of what you get with FineReader's screen shot capture tool (Version 12) when your screen shot is captured as a table to Excel. As you can see, it is not perfect, but close.

This video will help you to retrive text from image

https://youtu.be/T8PR4NITMYw