If you simply wanted to extract the text, (requiring you to reformat it for editing) then Microsoft Office Document Imaging used to be quite good.
Unfortunately, it isn't included in recent copies of Office, though it can be retro-loaded.
Microsoft do recommend other workarounds, however, some of which are very easy (depending on whether you have a version of Office installed, and which).
I've just tried one simple one, which worked admirably with a Jpeg, but depends on you having a version of OneNote installed as part of Office (which it should be for recent versions. Note, the following text mentions OneNote 2010, I used the latest, so it should work with any version I think)
The following (mildly amended) is Microsoft's instructions:
Optical character recognition
MODI also enables you to perform optical character recognition (OCR).
By performing OCR, you can then copy text from a scanned image or from a fax into another location.
To implement the functionality of this feature, use Microsoft OneNote 2010. To do this, follow these steps:
In OneNote 2010, on the Insert tab, click Picture. (My experience is that, on firing up OneNote, it will ask you to sign-in to a/your Microsoft Account - simply right click on the OneNote tab in the bottom task bar and 'close window', and it will bypass the sign-in).
Locate the scanned file. The file is then inserted into OneNote 2010 as a picture. (I simply chose Insert Picture from the One Note menu bar and browsed to it).
In One Note, right-click the now-inserted picture, then click Copy Text from Picture, and then paste the information (text) to another location (such as Word or Notepad).
This might be useful for anyone else that needs OCR-like capability.
Last edited by: tyrednemotional on Tue 28 Feb 17 at 08:44
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