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Copying Text From A Photo Image
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I have some stored jpeg images which are a pictures with several lines of text (poems) beneath each one. I would like to copy the text to keep as a file. I obviously can't highlight and cut and paste it in that form, so is there a simple way of doing this please?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The Windows Snipping Tool (as mentioned by Zac) will enable you to 'take a picture' of the relevant text area, which you could then insert into a Word (or similar) file. However it will still be just a picture; the text wouldn't have been 'read' by your computer. (I wouldn't actually both with the Snipping Tool anyway. To end up with a picture of the relevant text area I'd simply crop the original picture in an image viewer, such as Irfanview).
To get your computer to 'read' the text you need to use OCR ('optical character recognition') software. If you've got an all-in-one printer (or a standalone flatbed scanner) it might have come an OCR program. It will be intended for use with scanned documents but you should be able to use it just as well with jpeg images. Otherwise you'll need to install one of the programs suggested here:
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To get your computer to 'read' the text you need to use OCR ('optical character recognition') software. If you've got an all-in-one printer (or a standalone flatbed scanner) it might have come an OCR program. It will be intended for use with scanned documents but you should be able to use it just as well with jpeg images. Otherwise you'll need to install one of the programs suggested here:
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When I've needed to do this I just upload the image file containing the text to the site below and a couple of clicks and it outputs the text ready to copy.
Takes literally seconds per image and you can also crop out parts you don't want. You should be able to use your original images rather than making another screenshot from them.
http:// www.new ocr.com /
Takes literally seconds per image and you can also crop out parts you don't want. You should be able to use your original images rather than making another screenshot from them.
http://
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You seem determined to do things the hard way, Khandro!
I assume that you've been using the Windows Snipping Tool. If so, when you go to 'File > Save As' the default file format should be 'JPEG file'. So you should already have a set of jpegs. Somehow or other you seem to have changed that to 'Single File HTML (MHT)'.
You could now try an online file-conversion service, such as this one:
https:/ /www.co olutils .com/on line/MH T-to-JP G
but it might be easier just to re-capture the 'snipped' images in the correct format anyway.
I assume that you've been using the Windows Snipping Tool. If so, when you go to 'File > Save As' the default file format should be 'JPEG file'. So you should already have a set of jpegs. Somehow or other you seem to have changed that to 'Single File HTML (MHT)'.
You could now try an online file-conversion service, such as this one:
https:/
but it might be easier just to re-capture the 'snipped' images in the correct format anyway.
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