If you are someone who uses Google Docs often, you can simply check the option that says “ Convert text to Google Docs format ” and it will automatically perform OCR on the file before saving it.

We gave Google Docs an image of the famous Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 whisky label, which uses a mix of fancy script and plain block text, and it was only able to convert the more traditionally ...

A message box will pop up; click Ok. The file will start to convert to text. Now we have an image converted to text in a Word document, and you can make necessary changes to the text by editing.

Windows only: Free application ASCGEN, or Ascii Generator dotNET, takes in standard pictures and puts out images generated entirely from simple computer text. While free web apps like ASCII-O ...