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If you need to OCR a file, you have to choose a photo from a file, select the OCR function under the Insert tab, and then just right-click on the image selecting the “Copy Text from Picture” option. You won’t be able to collect and process photo and pictures through your smartphone or digital camera. The OCR technology used is old, limited to basic fonts (like sans serif fonts, as Arial or Helvetica) and works better with higher resolution images. The OneNote OCR feature will suit your needs only if you sometimes need to scan and extract smaller amounts of text. OneNote is a useful tool that allows you to organize text files with images like PDFs, screenshots or inserted photos, and it includes a quite basic OCR software function.

After Redmond extended OCR support to Mac and iPad, OneNote is included with the latest Microsoft Office you might already own. Microsoft OneNote is an elementary OCR solution you may take advantage of.