OCR - Google Drive Tutorial

hi there I'm Jamie Keat and welcome to my continuing video series on Google Drive today we're going to take a look at OCR which stands for optical

character recognition and how OCR works is that it can open uh images with text and convert it into something you can add it inside um inside your Google Docs so for example I have a PDF here if I just uh double click on it you can see uh this would be something you wouldn't be able to edit whether maybe someone sent it to you uh but maybe you want to take the text and you don't feel like typing it all out all you need to do is if you select it and right click and you go open with if I select Google Docs what it does it uses the OCR to recognize all the words and characters uh to uh as closely as it can uh put it into Google Docs so you can edit it so up here this is the image uh that comes up first but down below uh what you'd be able to see is all the text and everything and they try to it tries to get it as close as possible uh so it gives you a quick uh then all you have to do is a little bit of editing at the end so the other thing you can do um is uh in this case right here this is a uh image I just took uh from my phone from some book I had and uh and it came out a little dark but I'm still going to use it as an example uh so I just again select on it and then I right click and I go open with and I select Google Docs and again it's able to uh go through and select the character so if there's something that you could take a picture of make sure it's well lit when you uh when you take it um and then it'll put the picture up here and you can see in this case uh gets a lot of the words uh in there and you just kind of have to go through and edit and so that's something about OCR in Google Docs is a feature I find that's uh quite handy to uh save you a little bit of time so you don't have to type everything up again so I hope you like that tip again keep watching my Google series uh to find out what else you can do in Google Drive