Tag: ocr

When it comes to scanning and/or printing documents, what is OCR?

Humans and their acronyms! OCR is fortunately real easy: “optical character recognition” meaning the computer turns a picture of text into copyable text. 

I use it on all my scans of documents, so I can just boop! copy and paste from the scan into an email or Word or wherever. Also, my Mac can then search for text inside scans. 

This used to be rarified magic, but now all of our phones and Macs are doing it on all of our pictures. You can even search your Photos library or Notes app for text that’s inside photos! And look for the little “live text” icon on your phone  when you open a photo or take a screenshot. That will let you select text, tap a phone number to call it or an address to map it, and even translate!