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How to Extract the Text From Any Image

Wired – “Whether it’s for accessibility or research purposes, you have lots of tools to work with here. “There are plenty of reasons why you might want to pull the text out of an image you find online: instructions on a YouTube still, for example, or items on a printed menu, or inspirational quotes in your Instagram feed. Whatever the reason, there are text extraction tools that will do the job of recognizing and copying the words inside those images for you. As image identification techniques improve, these tools are getting better and better at accurately converting text in an image into usable, editable text. In fact, you might already be using one of these tools—there are several to choose from, so whatever your use case is, you should be able to find a service to match…”

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