Optical Character Recognition in Google Keep - TechRepublic

How to take advantage of Optical Character Recognition in Google Keep - TechRepublic:

Apparently you can use your Android smartphone and the "free" Google Keep App to capture and image, say of a newspaper article and quickly convert it to a "text" file. This could be very useful for genealogy. Use the phone to capture the image of a newspaper clipping obituary and convert it to a text file.

I have not mastered this technique as of the time I posted this link.

Dick Henthorn
17 Feb 2018

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Copy Text From Images (Many Methods) | Ubergizmo

Copy Text From Images (Many Methods) | Ubergizmo:
Optical Character Recognition (OCR).  A couple of ways to convert text images to text.  A very useful tool to have in your genealogy tool kit. This article discusses using Microsoft OneNote and a free service called Online OCR.

Dick Henthorn
12 Apr 2017
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