can anybody scan text off pages and covert to digital text?

[Pete M]

so I bought a older book about 4x4s.  thought it would answer some questions about MJ production numbers, but really I just have more questions.    but that's another topic for another post.  this one is about digitizing several pages of really tiny text so it's not 50 photos of text and so that way anyone can read it.  what options are out there?  does anyone here own such a device?

[blakews2217]

so I bought a older book about 4x4s.  thought it would answer some questions about MJ production numbers, but really I just have more questions.    but that's another topic for another post.  this one is about digitizing several pages of really tiny text so it's not 50 photos of text and so that way anyone can read it.  what options are out there?  does anyone here own such a device?

I use CamScanner on my phone, export to pdf and edit on the computer if I have to. Pretty nice app for a free one


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[Pete M]

ooo!  I like that idea!

[fiatslug87]

You can also try some free on-line OCR conversion sites.

[Pete M]

first attempt was... so-so

 

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[Zambeezy]

Yeah, OCR is 100% dependent on the quality of the image. Some software is better than others but all are imperfect in one way or another. I regularly use machine-read data at work that comes from various sources and it's usually decent quality, but almost all of it has some issues

[Eagle]

Scanning to PDF is generally a first step. Unless you have a program (app) that edits PDFs, you can't do anything with the PDF. And even full Adobe Acrobat isn't great for really editing text -- it's better only for making minor corrections for things like typos.

 

As Fiatslug mentioned, there are on-line OCR sites. I prefer to work on my computer, and there are also any number of free OCR programs that run under Windows. There are probably some for Apple iOS, too, but I don't know anything about those.I've been using a Windows program cleverly named "Free OCR." It's not perfect, but it's about as good as a commercial OCR program I used a few years ago at work. As was mentioned, the quality of OCR output is heavily dependent on the quality and clarity of the scan you're trying to convert.

 

https://www.simpleocr.com/download/

 

Here's one from the Microsoft Store (with links to others at the bottom): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/a9t9-free-ocr-software/9nblgggz5nsn?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

 

A couple of months ago I tried out four different (Android) cell phone apps for scanning documents into [purportedly] usable documents. All were highly rated in reviews. Two failed completely, and I tried them on a Samsung Eclipse J3, a ZTE something, and a Samsung Galaxy tablet. The other two succeeded in scanning the document, but the resulting scan was poor quality and not editable. In the end I gave up and deleted all four apps from all the devices.