Subsection 1 OCR
Optical character recognition or ORC used to be something that people were not aware of or thought would never go mainstream. Optical character recognition is cool technology that turns a picture of text or a PDF into plain text. Think of the power when you take a picture of a worksheet to convert it to text and then have a computer read it to you. For students with a visual impairment or a reading disability, this technology is excellent.
To my surprise, this technology still looks like it is going to go mainstream. Google Drive now has optical character recognition or OCR technology. Other platforms are starting to follow. Software developers are looking to improve on past versions of the products they sell. OCR is a technology that is being added to numerous products. At some point, this is going to be standard technology at some point.
Google OCR Honorable Mention
Google Has OCR technology to convert a picture to text. This is very important for electronic organization. You can take a picture store it on Google Drive then convert to text. OCR technology is not perfect. It can make mistakes but does works very well. Google OCR converts handwriting to text. If you have hard to read handwriting, there will be a few mistakes. However, if you have print handwriting as most young people do, then it works very well. Remember, this technology is developing and will only get better.
https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/ocr
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/176692?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lApeCNK6Ic
https://business.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-ocr-documents-for-free-in-google-drive--cms-20460
https://ccm.net/faq/34490-how-to-enable-ocr-in-google-drive
OneDrive OCR
OneDrive Converts PDFs to text.
OneNote Supports OCR
You can convert a picture to text with OneNote.
Prizmo - Scanning, OCR, and Speech
With this app, you can scan in PDFs and have them read to you. You take a picture of a document, and it reads it to you. You need good light for this to work. There is also a Macintosh version of this program. This is a great app, and it does work. However, it takes a little bit of patience to get it to work correctly.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/prizmo-document-scanning-ocr/id366791896?mt=8
Prizmo Go - Instant Text OCR
This is a free app that has optical character recognition for an iPhone or iPad. You can buy in-app purchases if you like the service. The app gets good ratings.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/prizmo-go-instant-text-ocr/id1183367390
OCR is also known as Optical character recognition is an application or hardware that turns pictures into plain text. Pictures could mean an actual picture you take of a document or a PDF converted to text.
OCR Instantly Pro
You can convert a picture to text. This app can translate text into a different language.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thesimplest.ocrpro&hl=en
Free
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thesimplest.ocr&hl=en
Text Fairy (OCR Text Scanner)
This is a good OCR app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.renard.ocr&hl=en
These programs will scan in the documents, but in some cases, you might need another program to read it. If you want to edit them in a word processing program, then you should be okay. Please read the information on the link under the product.
ABBYY FineReader
This is OCP software for the PC.
http://www.abbyy.com/finereader/
OCR Software – Readiris
This is software that does OCR scans.
http://www.irislink.com/c2-983-189/I-R-I-S----OCR-Technology-and-Document-Management-Solutions.asp