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19/03/2025

Extracting text from an image

This need may not arise very often, but it doesn't hurt to know how to handle such a task quickly and easily.

Let's say you need to transfer business card data to a third party. Let's also say that your phone doesn't have the Google Drive app, so you can't use the scanning function. But you can take a photo with your phone. Hmm..., weird situation). But less.

Do the following:

  1. Take a photo of the business card with your mobile phone.
  2. Send the resulting image to Google Drive cloud storage.
  3. Log in to your Google Drive account from your computer and find the file you need.
  4. Right-click on it and select "Open with > Google Docs".
  5. A photo will appear in the document that opens, and underneath it, all the text that Google recognized.
  6. And if you're not averse to aesthetics, then you'll get a bonus: Google will, if possible, reproduce the text formatting.