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18 May 2021  Amanda J. Brook  Senior Product Manager
Last update by Olivia Brown at 31 May 2021

Summary
Sometimes we could find some useful data in image on Internet. And how to get these data from the image quickly? Here we will introduce how to convert image to editable text.



Software with OCR function can help us convert text from image to other editable file format. Following will introduce what OCR is and notices to use the OCR.
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1. What is OCR and Notices to Use

OCR, optical character recognition, is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, scanned or printed text into machine-encoded text, widely used in the scanned document and photos. Before the arise of OCR, people can just type the data in the image manually. However, there are a few things we need to know before using OCR and improve the accuracy of OCR recognition.
1. The quality and integrity of the image. The better quality the image is, the higher accuracy will be.
2. Post proofreading. Even you provide a clear and perfect image to OCR software, it can not make the accuracy to be 100%. So, it would be better to proofread after converting image to text.
3. Select the advanced OCR software with multiple language options. If the OCR software only provides English as the supported recognition language, image with character in other language will not be able to convert to correct text.
After knowing how OCR works, following will introduce how to convert text in image to other editable file format. Here we will introduce the professional software – Renee PDF Aide to help you make it.

2. Convert Image to Text with Renee PDF Aide

Being a professional PDF editor, Renee PDF Aide also provides OCR function with multiple language. Following are how to make use of the OCR function in Renee PDF Aide to convert image to editable text.
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Renee PDF Aide, a powerful PDF editor, can convert PDF to Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Image/HTML/TXT and the other common formats. The utilized advanced OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology greatly improve the accuracy of character recognition. Besides, it can repair the damaged PDF files, compress PDF files to shorten the loading time, merge several files into one and rotate the file position. En/decryption and watermark are allowed to add for PDF files, too.
How to Convert Image to Text with Renee PDF Aide
Step 1: Download and install Renee PDF Aide.
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Step 2: Open the software and select [Convert PDF].
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Step 3: Select the function [OCR]. Click [Add Files] to add the target image.
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Step 4: Go to [+Languages] and select the image related language from the list. Then select the direction in [Image heading] for the image.
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Step 5: Select a folder to save the output file and click [Convert]. Then you will get the converted file in the target folder.
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TipsText file is widely used to save text information. If you want to edit the text with other functions, please copy the text to Microsoft Office Word for further operation.

3. Summary

This article mainly introduce how OCR works and the notices as well as how to convert image to text with Renee PDF Aide.
We need to confirm the definition and integrity of the image or the content and accuracy will be influenced.
Besides, if you need to convert PDF to other formats or edit the PDF files, edit tools and converters in Renee PDF Aide could help as well. Built-in OCR function with multiple language options will improve the recognition accuracy and fulfill your needs on converting PDF files in different language.