How to Fix Reading Mistakes
Key points
- Review the result
- Compare with the image
- Fix it
Steps
- Compare the recognized text with the original image or PDF.
- Fix mistakes directly in the "Recognized text" box.
- Then use "Copy text" or "Save as text".
To check the length, you can also use Character Counter.
Read Text from Images and PDFs (OCR) works best when you expect to correct the result by hand afterwards.
Use "Read Text from Images and PDFs (OCR)" (free)Tools that go well with this
- Extract Text from PDF: Pull the text out of a PDF to copy or save.
- Character Counter (for Applications and Reports): Count characters, lines and manuscript sheets of your text.
- Remove and Tidy Line Breaks in Text: Tidy line breaks in text copied from PDFs and elsewhere.