Sometimes, you scan a document but want to make changes to it but do not know how to; there is a feature in Microsoft Word that can extract text from images, especially if it’s an image of a document.

If you've scanned a document with your scanner or phone and have the image as a JPG file, it's often useful to convert that image to a PDF. Using Adobe Acrobat, you can even automatically process text ...

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 ...

Quite a few apps, including some free ones, turn your PDFs into editable Word docs or image files that you can embed. It's easier than you may think. I've been writing about software and hardware for ...

It's not an official feature (yet), but Google Docs can perform OCR image-to-text conversions on high-resolution files you upload to it. They have to be pretty darned clear and crisp, but it's a nice ...

Converting images into PDF files is practical if you want to merge several images into one PDF or save a single image professionally. Whether for printing, sending, or archiving — the PDF format is ...