How To Convert Image To Text In Google Docs

What is Google Docs OCR?

OCR means Optical Character Recognition which helps in getting all the text content in an image and converting it to digitally typed text. This helps in converting the uploaded image to convert into text.

Can you edit images on Google Docs?

Yes, an image in Google Docs can be cropped and edited.

Can an image be flipped in Google Docs?

Yes, image can be flipped in Google Docs.

How do I convert a picture to Google Docs?

1. Open Google Drive in your browser.

2. Click ‘New’ to upload an image -> Click ‘File upload’ in the dropdown .

3. Select the image from your computer -> Click ‘Open’ in the dialog window -> Now the image is uploaded.

4. Right click on the uploaded image in Google Drive -> Click ‘Open with’ -> Click ‘Google Docs’.

Now the picture is converted to 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.