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The power of OCR: Get text from images and scan
15/04/2026•5 minutes reading
You take a photo of a paper document with your phone or download a scanned book. Text looks like text, but is actually just a "picture" displaying text. You cannot copy or search for keywords.
OCR technology
Thanks to machine learning technology trained on billions of words, OCR technology will analyze images and convert them into text documents.
Application at FileMDF
The Image to Text (OCR) tool uses the Tesseract recognition core. Supports hundreds of languages with high accuracy!