Convert an Image to Text in Google Docs Using Extension

In this method, we need to install an extension in Google Docs to help convert the image to text within Google Docs. Let us see the steps in detail below:

Step 1: Open Google Docs on your computer and open the document

Open Google Docs in any modern web browser on your desktop or laptop device. Open the document in Google Docs.

Step 2: Click on ‘Extensions’ -> ‘Add ons’ -> Get add-ons’

In the menu bar of Google Docs, click on ‘Extensions’. A dropdown opens. Click on ‘Add ons’. Another sub dropdown opens up. Click on ‘Get add-ons’.

Step 3: Type ‘Img to Docs’ and Press the ‘Enter’ key

A dialog window opens up with Google Workspace Marketplace with the search bar.

In the search bar, type ‘Img to docs’ and press the ‘Enter’ key to search.

Step 4: Click on the icon ‘Img to Docs – Image OCR’ and Click on the ‘Install’ button

The search results are displayed. Click on the icon ‘Img to Docs – Image OCR’.

The add-on is opened in a new dialog window. Click on the ‘Install’ button.

Step 5: Choose your Google account from the list of accounts already signed in or choose to sign in to Google

A popup window opens up asking the user to sign in with a Google account. Choose the Google account from the list of accounts displayed or sign in to your google account.

Step 6: Click on ‘Allow’

Another page opens in the popup window. Click on the ‘Allow’ button.

Step 7: Click ‘Done’ in the popup

Now the add-on has been installed. Click on ‘Done’.

Step 8: Click on ‘X’ at the top right-most corner of the dialog window

Click on ‘X’ at the top right-most corner of the dialog window to close it, and go back to the Google Docs document.

Step 9: Click on ‘Extensions’ -> ‘Img to Docs – Image OCR’ -> Start

Now open the add-on from the document in Google Docs. Click on the ‘Extensions’ tab in the menu bar. A dropdown opens up. Click on ‘Img to Docs – Image OCR’ -> Start.

Step 10: Click on the cloud button ‘Drag files or click to upload’

The add-on is opened and displayed on the right side of the document. Click on the cloud icon in the panel ‘Drag files or click to upload’.

Step 11: Double-click on the image you want to extract text from your device

Choose the image from your computer in the window and double-click on the image.

Step 12: Click on the ‘Insert’ button after the image is processed

The image gets processed in the add-on, and the text on the image is displayed in the text box below. Click on the ‘Insert’ button after the image is processed.

Step 13: Text to Image Conversion Successful

The text that appears on the image is now converted to text and it is added to the document in Google Docs.

Google Docs is a free online document editor provided by Google. Google Docs makes it easier to create a document for personal and professional uses with a variety of features. People often take photos of notes on the blackboard a billboard, or from a newspaper for using it later. These text contents in photos may be needed to type into a document. Sometimes the image may be having 1 or 2 lines of content in it. Sometimes it can have many lines of text in the image. It takes a lot of time to type all that into a document by seeing the image every time.

Fortunately using Google Docs, we can save time on our work. Google Docs comes with an OCR tool. OCR means Optical Character Recognition which helps in getting all the text content in an image and converting it to digitally typed text. Using this, Google Docs helps us to save time typing all the contents in images to a digitally typed text in a document in Google Docs. This tool of Google helps in converting text in bills on financial analysis, images of book pages, and more.

In this article, we will be discussing converting an image to text in Google Docs.