You may have a need to extract text from an image from time to time. Often, when you do a screen capture, for example, you have text in the capture that you would like to use. You can manually transcribe it, but there are faster ways you may want to consider. Here are 5 convenient ways to extract the text in an image. 1. Converting image to text online This one is probably the easiest and the most used method. With online tools such as https://www.imagetotext.info/ and https://utilities-online.info, the whole process is simple and can be carried out anywhere, anytime. The format of the image does... [...]

Prepost SEO informed us about their free online “image to text converter tool” that scans an image file looking for text. When it finds text in the image, it “reads” the text and places it in a “container” on the site. You have two options for feeding it a file to analyze: 1. Upload the image file to the online tool 2. Input a URL (where the image is found) to the tool It can extract text from these formats: ➤ PNG ➤ JPG ➤ BMP ➤ GIF ➤ JPEG ➤ TIFF ➤ PDF When the conversion completes, you will get the text in a container from which you can: ■ Copy... [...]