How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

David E — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 06:00:44 GMT

Fantastic tip, David. Thanks a million!

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

Larry — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 00:15:04 GMT

David Thank you Thank you The info saved my day. Took a picture and tryed to put it in the text box of a ad. I could not figure out how to do this. Had one note but had never used it. Thanks again.

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

ASHISH KUMAR — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 07:26:47 GMT

Hey,

I've had OneNote for years and didn't know I could make OCR this easy.

Your post has saved me a lot of time and frustration.

Many, many thanks to....!

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

luiz antonio — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:52:15 GMT

thanks a milion from Brazil :D

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

James — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:57:22 GMT

Actualy a better option in one note is to right click the image and select "Make Text Selectable In Image". This retains the image as the format of the document and when you do a search in one note the image is included in the searche results (if it contains the text).

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

David Overton — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:04:27 GMT

Sujay,

You are copying the text - it is quite likely that it may then fail to keep the formatting, but hopefully it is less work to apply formatting than to re-type it all.

Thanks

David

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

sujay — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:53:37 GMT

I have done as u told till "Copy Text from Picture"...when i pasted it...shows in different format...help me!

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

Eduardo Esteves — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:51:57 GMT

Muito obrigado (from Portugal).

Eduardo

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

Anonymous — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:51:02 GMT

muchas gracias, fue un gran aporte para mi

Joseph

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

Andy T — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:21:25 GMT

Many thanks for this tip David. Like others I've been using One Note for a few years without knowing about this. I've also recently changed to Office 10 and thought that the OCR had gone for ever.

Cheers

Andy

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

dr sumit grover — Sat, 08 May 2010 07:18:50 GMT

thanks a lot for this tip u made my day

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

volto — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:33:53 GMT

AW FREAKIN SWEET thanks!

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

prashanth T — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:23:03 GMT

Iam very greatful to you .thank you !

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

Mostafa Soltan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:50:03 GMT

thanks a milion from Egypt :D

Mostafa

you are amazing David

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

clauds — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:17:48 GMT

wow, really useful. made my work waayyy easier!! thanks! :)

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

wes — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:01:28 GMT

Dave: Is it possible to merge OCR individual pages so as to come up with one complete document? If so, how do you do it?

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

wes — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:39:48 GMT

I have this question. Can you use OCR and combine multiple pages into a single document?

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

RACHID — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:14:06 GMT

thanks good man , you shared a great information ... good luck all over your life line

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

Peter — Sun, 10 May 2009 07:53:54 GMT

Thanks very much, David. I didn't know of OneNote's existence and it's OCR-function until finding your site thanks to Google. Made life a lot easier.

Thanks again.

Peter

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

David Overton — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:59:04 GMT

CJ - is the image a black and white image or grey scale? B&W is much better in my humble opinion.

Thanks

David

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

CJ — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:17:38 GMT

This was fairly easy to use, but 90% of the text is garbled. Any ideas on how to reduce this problem?

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

Bill — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:00:51 GMT

I'm sure this very valuable information in somewhere in the OneNote user guide but if you do not know what to look for you might not find it.

As others have said, your helpful note is so very much appreciated.

Thank you and may God bless you richly!

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

Basi (South Africa) — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:16:49 GMT

David, thank you, thank you, thank you so much.

Was about to give up, & searched Google, and voila! I came across a life-saver!

Thanks again David, Keep up the good work. We (incl. your employer, need people like you)

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

Amir — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:43:04 GMT

Thank you

re: How to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Office 2007 (using OneNote or a small tool)

zohreh — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:55:37 GMT

hey David,

thx for the very useful guideline. It was very helpful.