Tips for Reading Text from a Photo
Key points
- Shoot in good light
- Shoot straight on
- Fill the frame with text
Tips
- Shoot in a bright place without shadows.
- Hold the camera straight above the paper.
- Move close so the text appears large.
- Watch out for blur and camera shake.
Read the photo with Read Text from Images and PDFs (OCR).
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.