If what you want to do is take a graphic file (a photo for example) where there is text on a sign or a screen shot of text or any graphic that contains text and extract the text from the photo, this works very well and we use it all the time.
The instructions are a little vague however.
You MUST use OneNote for this function, however. At the moment it does not work in any other Office Program.
Once you realize that you have to use OneNote, the rest is easy.
- Copy the graphic from anywhere -- any application -- with Control C.
- Go to a page in OneNote
- Paste the graphic into that page using Control V
- Right Click on the Graphic You have just pasted
- Click on the Command "Copy Text from Picture"
(This extracts the text from the photo and places it in the Clipboard) - Go to any application you wish and Control V will paste the text from the picture (now in the clipboard) into the application where you want it.
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