OCR or Optical character recognition is an useful technology to convert an image into a machine readable text. The image can be of a scanned document or a printed text. Though the OCR software are not ...

Gboard for Android is beginning to roll out a rather nifty “Scan Text” optical character recognition (OCR) tool. Scan Text appears in the grid of Gboard capabilities and can be dragged to the toolbar ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with a dense PDF or a handwritten note, wishing there was an easier way to extract the information you need? Whether you’re a researcher trying to digitize ...

Google will soon start rolling out a new feature for Google Lens in Google Photos that lets users search for text in pictures and screenshots as well as copy and paste text from images. The Google ...

Microsoft is making it easier to extract texts from on-screen content without having to take a screenshot of the same first, X user PhantomOfEarth reported. This is going to be possible using the same ...

Google is adding a new built-in tool to Gboard for Android that lets you “Scan Text” using optical character recognition (OCR). About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the ...

Working with text on your computer offers a range of possibilities in searching and editing that simply aren't available with hard copy text. Check out these five text recognition tools to get your ...

Jaymar Cabebe covers mobile apps and Windows software for CNET. While he may be a former host of the Android Atlas Weekly podcast, he doesn't hate iOS or Mac. Jaymar has worked in online media since ...

Images are now parsed like language. OCR, visual context and pixel-level quality shape how AI systems interpret and surface content.

I'm using really old CPU power right now. I'd like something that's faster in general, and one thing in particular I'd like to speed up is my text scanning and OCR capabilities in Abbyy Finereader. I ...