Monday, July 10, 2023

Converting Images to Editable Text in Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word has some neat tricks under its hood, and one of them is the ability to convert PDF files to editable text. I've used this feature a few times and found it works reasonably well, though of course your results will vary depending on how the document is formatted. 

If you don't have access to OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software, you can use Word to convert an image to text by saving it as a PDF file first. This article from Make Use Of explains how in detail using a photo of two pages from a book as an example. It is a bit roundabout but it should work in most cases. 

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