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Microsoft OneNote is a popular note-taking application, one of its great but can be easily overlooked feature is its OCR ability. OneNote builds in OCR feature mainly for the reason, to turn captures into editable text for filing and manipulation across different mobile apps, after all, most of the times, we don't have enough time. The Ink to Text button may also grayed out because OneNote classifies your handwriting as a drawing instead of recognizing it as handwriting. To sovle this, try any of the following: To help OneNote recognize your notes as handwriting, try using lined paper and write between the lines. Right-click or press and hold on the selected text. In the pop-up menu that appears, choose Treat Selected Ink As and then choose Handwriting from the submenu. Next, click or tap the Ink to Text button to convert the selection to text. If this doesn’t work, you’ll have to reenter the text manually by ink or by typing the missing text. Oct 31, 2011 The Ink to Text button may also grayed out because OneNote classifies your handwriting as a drawing instead of recognizing it as handwriting. To sovle this, try any of the following: To help OneNote recognize your notes as handwriting, try using lined paper and write between the lines.

Sometimes you just need to copy text from an image. Maybe you want to grab a phrase from a screenshot, drop-down menu, error message, or pop-up window that doesn't allow text selections. It could also be a filename, file size, or date modified stored in a file directory.

In such cases, if you try to simply copy the text, you'll notice that it won't work. Even if all text may seem the same to you, there is a big difference between real text and text embedded in a graphic for your computer.

That said, being able to copy text from images will save you the time required to manually transcribe the words into your word processor. Luckily, it only takes a few steps to convert an image to text. There are apps that analyze letters in an image and convert them so that you can easily transfer and edit the text on your Mac. Here's how the process goes.

Ways to convert picture to text

There are a few ways you can copy the text you are after. Obviously, trying well-known shortcuts like Command + C and Command + V should be your first options, just for the speed and ease of it. But if they didn't work — read on.

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Copy the text from pictures using OCR

Are you looking to extract text from images, photos, or design mockups and make it editable? It's not difficult. But first, you'll need an application that can recognize text via OCR (Optical Character Recognition). Prizmo is the perfect tool for that and acts as a powerful scanner to convert image text into usable text in seconds. To copy the text you need from images:

1. Click the plus icon and select an image source from the drop-down menu
2. Highlight the images you want to bring into Prizmo and they will appear on the left side of the window
3. Click Crop and eliminate any image distortions by using the frame and grid icons
4. Using the Adjust button, change the sharpness or contrast of the text to increase readability
5. To begin the OCR process, click Recognize
6. Review the extracted text on the right side of the app window to correct any formatting errors

Convert jpg/png to text

The same flow can be used with your jpg/png images and screenshots as well.

If you don't have Prizmo to read your image, you can use a PDF reader with OCR support instead. In this way, to convert image to text would mean to turn it to PDF and then copy text from a PDF. Here's how you quickly turn a jpg/png to PDF:

1. Open your image in Preview.
2. Go to File and choose Export as.
3. Select PDF as an output format.

To quickly copy text from a PDF, you can use tools like PDFpen, an advanced PDF editor for Mac. The app allows to copy as well as edit and insert rich text along with the formatting. So you own the flexibility here.

Read receipts and invoices

If you need an OCR tool to simplify your accounting on Mac, you can use Receipts app for the job:

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1. Drag your image of PDF right into the Receipts window.
2. Set the app to extract data like document date, bank connection, and taxes.
3. Organize and filter your receipts by tags and categories flexibly.

How to make a scanned PDF document searchable

Although PDFs are commonplace on our computers, it's still hard to edit them. It can even be difficult for your computer to recognize text in a scanned PDF to copy it. For this, you'd most likely need to use OCR software.

If you want to make a scanned PDF searchable, you can start by trying to use what you already have in macOS and then graduate to professional OCR software, such as Prizmo and PDF Search, for more flexibility.

Reading PDFs with built-in macOS tools

Preview is the most common tool to read and manage PDFs on Mac. And the good news is, a lot of PDFs are scannable by default, so you can just open them in Preview and copy-paste everything you need:

Unlike standard clipboarding, Paste apps allows you to copy-paste multiple items:

1. Copy everything from images to text snippets just the way you used to
2. Retrieve anything you've copied by clicking Show Paste in the menu bar or using a shortcut Command + Shift + V

If, however, your PDF file is a scanned or image-based document, you won't be able to make changes to the file, as Preview doesn't have an OCR feature (use Prizmo for that). In this case, you could use the native TextEdit app to extract the text you need.

1. Open the PDF file. While the Preview app is the default PDF viewer on the Mac, you can also use other PDF viewing applications, such as Adobe Acrobat.
2. Select the entire PDF by clicking Edit and Select All, or you use Command + A
3. Copy the contents of the PDF by clicking on Edit and Copy in the menu or using keyboard shortcut Command + C
4. Open the TextEdit app located in Applications or use the macOS search bar to find it
5. In the left corner of a new window, open a New Document
6. Change the TextEdit to Plain Text Mode by clicking on Format and Make Plain Text or pressing the keyboard shortcut Shift + Command + T
7. Paste the contents of the PDF by clicking Edit and Paste from the menu or pressing on Command + V. As the TextEdit is in Plain Text Mode, you'll only see the text that you've pasted and none of the images or formatting from the original PDF.
8. You may be need to fix up some of the spacing errors after pasting the text

Extract text from a scanned PDF

Alternatively, you might just need to find a piece of text in a large PDF document. In some cases, a simple Command + F lookup could do wonders, but if the PDF was sourced from images, your only way is to go with some professional software like PDF Search.

PDF Search is an app that will allow you to scan through hundreds of PDF pages to find exactly what you're looking for with lightning-fast results. PDF Search does more than find matches for your search terms: it also looks for multiple combinations and checks for related terms.

If you need a powerful tool that will let you see whether a word appears in a heading, subheading, or body paragraph, PDF Search will allow you to find the most relevant results. You'll also be able to convert office documents to PDF.

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Being able to quickly grab text from an image or PDF and edit, save, or make any other changes to it can make a big difference for your word processing productivity. OCR apps make it possible to recognize text embedded within a graphic and turn it into a text file you can edit so that you can easily convert an image to text or make a scanned PDF searchable.

Copy text from image online

If you want to extract text from image without using any OCR tools, you can do it online. Google Drive gives you free OCR help in minutes. Although it may not render the formatting properly, you get editable text from any image — including screenshots.

Here's how you turn picture to text with Google Drive:

1. Access your drive and click New > File upload.
2. Once you upload an image, right-click on it and select Open with > Google Docs.

The new tab with a Google Docs document will open automatically. To convert some scanned copy into text:

1. You'll see an image and editable text extracted from it at the bottom.
2. Make the edits if necessary and delete the image.
3. The doc with the text will be accessible from Google Drive

Note that this flow comes handy with short pieces of text. The more text you extract, the more mistakes it will have.

How to manage digital notes on Mac

Converting handwritten notes to digital is an easy deal if it happens on iPad. Apple Pencil works with numerous note-taking apps, allowing you to draw or write and transform your writing into digital notes. The good news is, you can use iPad and Apple Pencil alongside Mac — as an extended workspace — on macOS Catalina and macOS Big Sur.

The easiest way would be to use Apple's Notes. Apart from handwriting support, the app has annotation and inline scanning capabilities. With iCloud support available, you can easily access your digital notes on a Mac.

If you need to convert math handwriting to digital LaTeX, MathML, or an image, MathKey is there to help. The app is powered by MyScript Interactive Ink technology and easily transforms plain text into math formulas.

Your macOS is powerful. As a matter of fact, it offers a few free solutions for reading images and PDFs. For advanced functionality like reading Receipts or automatically converting image to text, you still need a bit more. But no worries, there are shortcuts too — every OCR and PDF scanning app mentioned in this article is available for a free 7-day trial with Setapp. You can now stop typing and convert that text in seconds, saving hours.

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1. Correcting Conversion Errors

Correcting Conversion Errors

The handwriting conversion technology in a Tablet PC is very good, but it's not perfect. Although OneNote successfully converts most of your handwriting into text, the results are sometimes less than optimal. OneNote makes a best guess at what it thinks you wrote, and when it guesses wrong, you need to correct the mistakes.

For example, when OneNote attempted to convert the handwriting in Figure 5.17, it came up with this:

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You can handle these errors in either of two ways. You can let the part of the text that OneNote cannot decipher remain as handwriting by simply not including it when you use the Selection tool (Figure 5.18). Or if you want all of the text converted, simply type the correct word over the misidentified one after it's been converted to text.

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To correct a converted word:

1. Choose the Selection tool.

2. Select the word that you want to correct by doing one of the following:

• Click anywhere in the word you want to correct.

• Drag the stylus or mouse over the word you want to correct. You can select more than one word; however OneNote doesn't always offer corrections for the additional words.

• Double-tap the word you want to correct.

For a few seconds, a corner bracket appears to the left of the selected word (Figure 5.19).

Figure 5.19 After OneNote converts text, you can move the stylus or mouse over the word to see the correction tag.

3. Move the stylus over the corner bracket to see the correction Smart Tag.

A menu appears with suggested replacements for the incorrectly converted word (Figure 5.20). At the bottom, an image of your handwritten word appears. In this case, OneNote doesn't offer the correct word.

Figure 5.20 Click the correction tag to see other possible choices as well as the original handwriting. In this example, the correct word doesn't appear on the correction menu; you'll have to restore the handwriting or make the correction manually.

4. Do one of the following:

• Tap or click the correct word, if it appears in the menu. The correct word replaces the incorrect one.

• Delete the incorrect word and then type the correct word using the Tablet PC Input Panel or a keyboard.

• Delete the incorrect word. Then rewrite the word in your handwriting and retry converting it to text.

• ndo the conversion by choosing Edit > Undo. This will revert the converted text to your handwriting.

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• If you're using a mouse or are comfortable using the right-click features of your stylus, you can right-click the misspelled word and choose the correct word. Choose More, and the Smart Tag correction menu appears (Figure 5.21). Use this method if you don't have a Tablet PC but are using notes written on one.

Figure 5.21 If you don't have a Tablet PC, you can convert handwritten notes given to you by Tablet PC users. Right-click the word and choose from the suggestions, or choose More to see the correction tag containing the original word.

• If you select more than one word, OneNote will attempt to correct all the words (Figure 5.22). When OneNote offers a correction for only the first word, the other words are not erased when you implement the change.

Figure 5.22 You can select multiple words for correction; however, OneNote won't always be able to correct more than the first word.

• Rewriting a misconverted word may not be an effective option, given that the Tablet PC failed to convert the word previously.

• If a particular handwritten passage has many misconverted words, you may want to keep your original handwriting and refer to it as you do drawings and other images.

Helping OneNote Convert Your Handwriting to Text

You can take a number of steps while entering handwriting to improve the odds that OneNote will correctly convert it to text:

• Always turn on the ruled lines when using handwriting. Choose View > Rule Lines and then select a format. The figures in this chapter show the College Ruled lines.

• Write within the lines. Use wide rule lines if necessary. Staying within the lines improves OneNote's ability to successfully convert your handwriting and keeps the text together.

• Use single-spacing. To help you with the spacing, choose the rule lines that let you most comfortably write on one line. If you skip lines, double-spacing your entry, OneNote will create a new note container for each line of handwriting. You will then find it difficult to move your handwriting because you'll have to select and move multiple note containers.

• If OneNote runs your words together or breaks them up when it converts them, use the grid options on the View > Rule Lines menu to help you learn how to space your words.

• Don't write diagonally. OneNote will interpret this handwriting as drawings and will not convert it to text.

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