Free OCR - Extract text content from images

Sometimes you get an image file that contains a piece of text to use. The most common way is to . type the text to extract. This takes a lot of time and effort. In this case, try using Free OCR.

Certainly many times you find or receive image files that capture the content of a website or a scanned image file from a book . containing important or necessary content to use.

There are many different software that allow the extraction of text content contained in images. However, the above-mentioned software that supports Vietnamese is not much, even it can be said to be very rare.

Free OCR is a free online service that allows you to identify and extract text contained in any image, so you can easily use or edit the content of the text later. just extracted.

Free OCR supports common image formats JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP. Each file has a maximum capacity of 2MB, and supports multiple languages, including Vietnamese. The only drawback of this service is that you are only allowed to use the service 10 times in 1 hour.

In particular, in addition to the image format, Free OCR also supports extracting content from PDF files, which means that you can convert and extract content from PDF files for use and editing.

After accessing the website, in the Upload image for OCR section, click the Browser button, navigate to the image file (or PDF file) to extract the content. In Language section, select the language of the content to extract from the image (or PDF file). In case that is Vietnamese, select Vietnamese .

Enter the confirmation code below, and click the Send File button to start uploading images and the service begins the process of identifying and extracting the text contained inside.

After the extraction process ends, the results will be displayed in the upper part of the Website.

Although the results are not really perfect, however, with a free service, along with the complexity of Vietnamese characters, extracting content like Free OCR can be considered as a handicap. received, with not too many errors.

In contrast, in the case of extracting content from a PDF file, Free OCR does a great job, with very few errors, sometimes not.

Results of extracting content from PDF files.

Note: For PDF files, the service only allows extracting the contents of the first page contained in the file. Therefore, if the PDF file has many pages, you can use PDF Tools to cut the file into multiple pages, and then use Free OCR for each page to extract the content.

In the case of images containing English content, the extracted content is perfect and there are almost no errors encountered.

After the content has been extracted, you can copy and paste the contents into a text editor, to save them as text files, or edit and extract the content there as you like. .

Note: As mentioned above, Free OCR is only allowed to use 10 times per hour. In case the number of times has expired, you can switch to another web browser, access Free OCR to continue using as usual.

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