Decent picture to text converter?

[Some Gump]

Hi guys,

Hoping you can help!

Does anyone know a good image to text converter? Like a screenshot / jpg version of my old flatbed scanner maybe?

I have a lot of iphone screenshots of lists which are all in sets of 3 lines.

(bold) Name
(small, grey) Title
(bold) company

I've tried excels built in thing (doesn't work at all) and a couple of online ones, but they seem to all randomly put some job titles in line with name, which makes turning these screenshots of names into an actionable list somewhat of a nightmare. Can anyone help a middle aged man thwart the app?

(context - I'm a fully paid up member of the trade show, goal is to prioritise the people I want to contact, issue is that when I click on a name and save, then "back", it goes back to the top of a list with >500 results and I have to scroll for ages and it's doing my head in!)

Thanks in advance to the wonderful crutch that is this sub-forum

[lufbramatt]

There’s an app which I think is part of ms office called Onenote which has image to text built in. I’ve been using it quite successfully to convert scans of old documents to editable text. Just drop the image into a onenote page and you can right-click and “copy text from picture” from the image and paste into word etc.

[Some Gump]

Thanks Matt!

[Alorotom]

as an alternative, if you are using a phone to grab the image there is a very useful app I have used for years for this called ScannerPro - its excellent

[biggiles]

Microsoft Onenote is very good at this (and many other things, it's a brilliant application).

But if you are doing 500 images, then it might take a few clicks- so you could look at scanning apps like "Genius Scan" on your smart phone. Put all the images into one document, in the app, and it will "OCR" the images for you and put the text into a PDF. But it's more convoluted than Onenote.

[Somebody]

Some Gump said:

Does anyone know a good image to text converter? Like a screenshot / jpg version of my old flatbed scanner maybe?

I have a lot of iphone screenshots of lists which are all in sets of 3 lines.

(bold) Name
(small, grey) Title
(bold) company

Try this: open the iphone photo, then press the text box icon on the bottom right. It will turn blue. Then highlight the text you want to copy. Paste into a note or email.

[Arnold Cunningham]

I have found just uploading pics to chatGPT works well.

Was in france a few weeks back and while I can do a bit of french, the menu was beyond me. So I just took a photo of the menu in french and posted it to chatGPT - et, volia! Worked a treat.