Copying text from a picture

For readers, workers, and students, a large part of the content they consume is on paper, and even if you've kept organized by using folders and the best life hacks, it can be difficult to easily find a passage you need within these files. If you need a particular text or even just a part of it, you would have to spend a lot of time transposing or using a scanner and expensive Optical Character Recognition (OCR) applications to capture this text and use it digitally.

OneNote, our free notebook, has OCR functionality built in that can easily identify the text in any image pasted onto its pages. This feature is easy to use for photos and scans not only documents but also cards, business cards, and even printed shirts.

The operation of this feature is very simple: just paste any image into Microsoft OneNote and it will automatically recognize the text! If the text is in another language, you can define which language the text is in so that it performs...