It's always best to edit it immediately so you can compare any errors or questionable conversions to the original for correction. Ĭlicking the pencil icon, I can edit the text such as correcting foc into food, clean up the formatting and so on. There is some preamble text on the preceding page but this is all the important recipe information. This is a screenshot of the result of photographing the Potted Ham recipe in Helen Witty's Good Stuff Cookbook. I excluded that side note from the frame of the photo as I composed the shot. Even this particular sample had a side note on "deviling" this recipe with garlic and cayenne. Digging through my cookbooks, it was difficult to find a sample all in one column. If your target recipe is on one page or well delineated alone, you can just use Text Scan to take the picture and directly convert the result to text.įor a recipe to scan well, all the text needs to be in a single column and you need to have excluded any surrounding text from the photo area. OCR is a method for taking a photo and converting the content into text. OCR is an acronym for Optical Character Recognition. For the purposes of this article, you only need to be able to crop and save new versions of the photo so most editing tools will do the job. Snapseed is my preferred handheld photo editor.There are a number of other apps as well in the Play Store. It's free (with ads) and you can pay for a no ad experience. This is the highest rated OCR app for Android at the time of writing. When I'm opening existing files, they're in my Dropbox folder. All photos I take are automatically uploaded to Dropbox for easy sharing across my devices. This app isn't necessary for what I'm demonstrating, but is part of my phone photo environment. There are a number of alternatives for cloud storage as well such as Box, Amazon Drive, Google Drive. Dropbox is available on most every platform.Common alternatives are Google Keep, Microsoft OneNote, Bear and so on. On linux I have to use the web interface. Evernote is available on most every platform.But the same apps or sorts of apps are available for the Apple environment also. I'll be describing this with apps I use on my Android phone and Windows/Linux PC. But now, I can automate this process more.
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