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Greg Solon
Copper Contributor
Aug 07, 2018

OCR / copy text no longer working?

Hi. I'm use the Windows OneNote app, OneNote Online and iOS / iPhone OneNote app (not using the OneNote 2013 or 2016 app) and it seems that the ability to search text in images or copy text from images (i.e. OCR) as indicated by this article - https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/copy-text-from-inserted-pictures-in-onenote-online-b4fb915a-7182-44ec-9067-0d9c81977c31 - is no longer available or working for me. Anyone else having this problem? I've placed two pictures in two separate pages and nothing - this was more than one week ago, so plenty of time for it to "do it's OCR thing".

 

If anyone can shed any light on this I'd greatly appreciate it, as this was one of the features I liked the most about using OneNote.

  • Greg Solon's avatar
    Greg Solon
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 17, 2018

    Can anyone confirm that OCR is working on newly inserted pictures? Essentially just add a picture with text to a note, wait a bit (usually it appeared within hours), then see if you can right-click and copy text. Or search for words in the picture.

     

    Just not working for me still  :(

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      Greg Solon
      Copper Contributor
      Aug 24, 2018

      Ok so it seems to have resolved itself now. Perhaps a temporary bug with OneNote Online? I had to edit some notes to have the images re-indexed, though. Hmmm...

       

      Well, it's been good chatting to myself.

      • J Constantine's avatar
        J Constantine
        Copper Contributor
        Nov 01, 2018

        Really? I found the UWP version doesn't do OCR at all. Am I missing something?

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    J Constantine
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 02, 2018

    I found OCR is working, but only in a limited way. You can search, but you can't highlight or copy text.

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