While we're well into the digital era, where communication is quick, and photos are stored in electronic devices rather than physical photobooks, there are still instances when you have to deal with ...

Microsoft today updated its OneNote note-taking service with optical character recognition (OCR) support across all platforms. The company also released a new version of its iPad app, adding ...

I’ve long been using Prizmo to quickly extract text contained in photos using the iPhone’s camera. Developed by Creaceed, Prizmo has always stood out among iOS scanner apps thanks to its accurate and ...

There are quite a few choices on iTunes for apps that can turn images of documents, book pages, business cards, and more into digital, editable text. Our favorite is TextGrabber for its ease of use, ...

Despite the rapidly evolving technology, OCR (Optical Character Recognition) applications still haven’t been able to progress at a substantial level. Most of them are either utterly inconsistent and ...

This post in a thread on the Programmer's Symposium will tell you what I'm trying to do. If you haven't already read the thread, this previous post will give you a recap of why I'm trying to do it.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently unveiled a new website with updated guidance and resources for mobile ...

Android doesn't have a ton of apps that can turn images into text documents, but of the ones available, Google Goggles is free and does everything it promises to do: copy text from an image and let ...