5 Best Ways to Copy Text from an Image

This image is used to illustrate how we can copy text directly from an image. Photo by Lukas on Pixabay

Here I have an image file and I want to copy text from this image. We’re going to look at a few different ways that you can do this.

They’re all really easy to do, and chances are you’ve already used some of these apps before.

Let’s check this out.

All images and text are created to demonstrate how to use the tools, images created by the author

1) Google Drive & Docs

First, we’re going to use Google Drive together with Google Docs, and with this technique. You don’t have to install any software, although you will need a Google account.

Head to Google.com, and in the top right-hand corner, click on the app launcher and then select Drive.

On Google Drive, you can now drag and drop your image file into Drive. You could extract text from

· PNGs,

· JPEGs,

· GIFs, or

· PDFs.

Once you finish uploading your file, right-click on it and then select open in Google Docs.

When Google Docs opens, you should see your original image file with the extracted text underneath, it.