How to Extract Text from PNG?

Part 1: Recognize Character with OCR

OCR, fully known as optical character recognition, is the technology widely used in recognizing words on images. Through the optical way, the printed documents can be converted to the collection of the black and white dots, and then these dots will turn into the editable words.

The OCR technology can convert the written text into the editable words, including the scanned image to the text read by machines. Then, the text can be processed win Microsoft Word, Google Docs and the other text editors.

Next, we will talk about how to extract text from PNG.

Part 2: How to Extract Text from PNG?

1. Renee PDF Aide

If you want to extract text from PNG, we recommend you use Renee PDF Aide. This multifunctional PDF software can use the OCR technology to improve the character recognition, but also generate the converted file quickly. Here are details.

What is Renee PDF Aide?

Renee PDF Aide is the software that supports to edit PDF and convert PDF. With utilization of the advanced OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology, it can convert PDF to Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Image/HTML/TXT and the other common formats. You can designate the specific pages to be converted at the speed of 80 pages/min. 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.

What’s more, Renee PDF Aide supports English/French/German/Spanish/Portuguese/Chinese/Korean/Japanese. Under the mode of OCR, it can greatly improve the accuracy of character recognition. Even though you are a new user, you can use this software easily.

How to extract text from PNG with Renee PDF Aide?

Step 1: Download and install Renee PDF Aide. Then, open the software and get into [Convert PDF].

Step 2: Select [OCR] at the top menu. Click on [Add Files] to select the target PNG (JPG/BMP) image. Besides, click on [Options] or [+ Languages] to select the language of the original file. If the language is not included in the language list, you can add the new language package within the software.

Step 3: Finally, click on [Convert]. The text on the image will be saved as a text document.

2. NewOCR.com

NewOCR.com is an online OCR format converter. It can convert many images to the text document, such as JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, PDF and DjVu. Although there are many ads, the TesSerACT OCR-oriented engine technology and 122 OCR languages are welcomed by many people. Next, we will show you how to extract text from PNG on NewOCR.com.

Steps:

Get access to https://www.newocr. com; click on [Choose File] to upload the PNG image; then, click on [Preview] to identify the text on the image; finally, click on [Convert] to extract text from the PNG image.