You can easily add all sorts of objects to a Word document in Office 2011 for Mac. Word 2011 gives you shortcuts to position an object in your document. Here’s how to get at them: Select an object. On the Ribbon’s Format tab, go to the Arrange group and click the Position button. Choose a position from the gallery. The text is placed to the right of the image / scanned document, so you can see if everything is being taken down as it should. It does basic editing of that text, as well as spell checking (if you downloaded the relevant dictionary).
Open whatever extractor you are using.Cool Picture Text
Whatever extractor you choose, the process involves opening the image in the extractor, extracting the text from it, and then copying and pasting the text into a document for editing. Different types of applications or services abound:- Scanner-included software: If you have a scanner and still have the software that came with it, it probably includes OCR text extraction capabilities. Instructions should have come with the scanner or you should be able to look them up online for a relatively modern scanner.
- Free Websites: These ad-driven but functional Websites typically take TIF, GIF, PDF, JPG, BMP, PNG or some combination. They often have limits (such as 5MB) to the size of files you can upload. Some sites will email you a Word document or other file containing the text of your image for free, others will simply provide the text for you to copy. A few include:
- Free-ocr.com[7]
- Onlineocr.net[8]
- High-cost OCR software: Some OCR software costs up to $500 to purchase; consider these only if you need extremely highly accurate OCR results. Some of the more popular can be found at TopTenReviews.com or similar sites; several of the top currently include:[9]
- Omni Page Standard
- Adobe Acrobat
- ABBYY Fine Reader
- Free software; it is likely that these solutions will not work with larger images and many don’t work beyond more than the first page of a PDF:
- FreeOCR[10]
- Simple OCR[11]
- Free OCR To Word[12]