What is the video tutorial about How do you copy text from scanned documents?
Today you will see how to copy text from scanned documents, which for any PC or phone are basically images.
Why can't the text be copied from some PDF documents?
Some PDF, Word, Excel, etc. documents are made starting from some scanned documents.
These "documents" being scanned, they are basically images, not documents at all.
It's exactly like taking a picture of a document and then trying to copy the text from the picture
Fortunately, there is OCR (optical character recognition) technology
OCR is a technology for recognizing characters in images.
OCR is also used when digitizing books or documents that were printed before the digital age
In the tutorial, I used the Text Fairy application to copy the text from the scanned document
Text Fairy app is free and works very well.
With its help, you can copy the text from an image, a scanned document or even from a physical medium (newspapers, books, etc.), using the phone's camera.
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