Posted January 11, 2013 by Alex Bahdanovich in Microsoft Office, Windows

OneNote has the ability to extract text from an image.

One of the best note taking applications, OneNote, accepts a large degree of information through various methods. Text, video, and drawings are just a few of the ways that data can be entered into OneNote. However, one of my favorite features is the ability to recognize text from screenshots, scanned pages, and other images. OneNote’s Optical Character Reader (OCR) functions are incredibly helpful.

How to Copy Text from Images in Microsoft OneNote › Search www.groovypost.com Best Images. Posted: (6 days ago) Jan 31, 2020 If you’re using the desktop version of OneNote, open the section of your notebook that contains an image. To copy the text from the image, right-click the image, then click the Copy Text.

Before you begin, make sure that you have Microsoft Office with OneNote installed and running. Although I am using OneNote 2013 here, you can follow similar steps on older versions of the program as well.

• Microsoft OneNote allows you to copy the text from a picture or image. OneNote supports Optical Character Recognition (OCR), which allows you to copy text fr.
• I am a huge fan of OneNote and do copy/paste all the time. Until recently, if I need to paste something in plain text in OneNote, I’d go long way by right-clicking the area, click the right arrow next to Paste. And then pick one of the Paste options that pops up, Keep Source Formatting, Merge Formatting, Keep Text Only, or Picture.

Below is a screenshot of a Word document. We will use this as an example of pulling text of a screenshot.

1.Select the Insert tab from the OneNote ribbon. Then choose Pictures. Now, find your image, and import it.

2.Next, simply right-click on the image, and select Copy Text from Picture.

Your text has been copied, and it is on the clipboard. Paste it anywhere, and test it out.

Please note that this technique, like all OCR systems, will only work for images with clear and readable text. Generally, this will work on most, if not all, of your scanned documents.

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