Remember the previous days, when you required a scanner and expensive OCR software if you required converting a page of text into editable content.

The previous days are gone, free of charge OCR has opened Web-based OCR service that turns any uploaded image file into a text categorizer you can load into Word or your file editor of your choice.

The site supports BMP, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, as well as PDF files (although for the instant it will change only the initial page of a PDF, a quite frustrating restriction that will allegedly be remedied in the prospect).

The upper limit file volume is 2MB, and the service recommends a least amount of 150 dpi. You'll also require missing a lot formatted documents for at the moment: free of charge OCR doesn't so far sustain column and the like.

As a result, your mileage will differ depending on the outlook and resolution of your picture. That said, the service does an attractive magnificent work. I make use of my iPhone to crack a photo of a text, and the consequential text file was repair near perfect.