OCR

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is used for converting images, PDF files and scanned documents into readable text. In other words, you can extract text from images.

The posts below provide tips, tutorials and reviews of OCR based platforms which can be used for extracting text from photos and other types of digital documents.

Scan Documents With iOS & Android in Editable Format With Office Lens

Posted on April 13, 2015 (April 12, 2015)

A while back Microsoft released the Office Lens app for Windows Phone which made it possible to scan documents using a WP device. But Office Lens isn’t any common document scanning app, as it makes it possible to convert your paper documents into editable MS Office files.