What is OCR?

Optical character recognition converts images of text — scans, photographs, screenshots — into machine-readable characters.

5 tools that work with OCR

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PDF Tools2

OCR PDFRecognise the text in a scanned PDF and add it as an invisible, selectable layer over the original pages.PDF Text ExtractorPull all the text out of a PDF as plain text you can search, copy or reuse.

QR & Barcodes3

Barcode ReaderRead a code from a photo, a screenshot or your camera, entirely in your browser.Business Card QR to vCardDecode the QR code on a business card and save the contact as a .vcf file for any address book.QR Code to TextPull the raw text, link or data out of a QR code image, and check it before you act on it.

Related terms

Terms that appear alongside OCR on the same tools.

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