Image to Text: How to Easily Extract Text from Images

How to extract text from images with Adobe Scan

Looking to scan text from an image? No need to dust off your old scanner. Instead, you can use Adobe Scan to quickly and effectively extract text from images. Here’s how:

1. Download and open the app. Head to the App Store on your smartphone or tablet and download the Adobe Scan app. Open the app and select the “Document” mode.
2. Use your device camera. Point your device’s camera at the document you want to scan, ensuring you’ve captured all the text you want to scan.
3. Start scanning. Scanning will begin automatically. If not, click the shutter icon to capture the image.
4. Edit your scan. Click ‘Continue’ so you can crop the image and make further edits. If you’ve missed parts of the text and need to retake the image, hit ‘Scan again’. Likewise, if you need to scan more pages of the same document, you can take more scans now.
5. Confirm your scan. As soon as you’ve scanned everything you need, click on the symbol on the bottom right which displays the number of pages you’ve scanned.
6. Save your scan. Give your scan a recognisable name and click on “Save PDF” at the top right.
7. Share scans. You can now share your finished scan as a PDF by clicking ‘Share’. Whether it’s an attachment in an email or Messenger, share it as many times as you require.

How to read text from an image and edit it

Using the Adobe Scan app provides benefits such as automatic secure saving in the Adobe Cloud. This gives you the flexibility to access your files directly from all devices no matter where you are. Moreover, you can make further edits with other tools from Adobe without having to reupload your files.

How to edit scanned PDFs

Once you’ve extracted the text from your image and saved it as a PDF, it’s simple to edit the scanned documents. Use the Adobe Acrobat Reader app to make edits to your scans directly using your smartphone or other device.

You can make a range of edits, such as:

• Add and edit text. Whether it’s adding, editing or removing text from a scanned document, use our simple tools to make the required changes to your scans.
• Make comments and notes. Use the app to make annotations, notes and comments to scanned documents. This makes it easy to highlight important information or provide feedback.
• Add signatures. Adding a digital signature to your scanned documents makes filling forms and signing contracts a breeze.
• Text markup and highlighting. Make sure you can find important information at a glance using highlighting and markup tools.
• Organise documents. Add, adjust, reorder and delete pages as you require.

Scan documents and edit text online.

If you’ve scanned documents using a physical scanner or just prefer to edit your scanned documents on a larger screen, using Adobe Acrobat’s online tools gives you the flexibility you need.

When your scan is complete, your new document will be immediately available on the Cloud. Log in to get started with editing, using popular tools such as:

• Fill and sign a PDF
• Merge PDF
• Edit PDF
• Compress PDF
• Convert PDF to Word document

Scan handwriting in an image and extract to text.

By scanning documents with printed text and saving them as a PDF, you can easily extract text sections from them. This isn’t as easy with handwritten notes as the text won’t be automatically recognised. So, how do you copy text from an image, document or form that’s been handwritten?

This is where OCR (Optical Character Recognition) can help. Using tools with OCR allows both handwritten and typed texts to be converted into a searchable format so you don’t have to tirelessly retype everything again.

You can use Adobe Acrobat Pro to get started with OCR.