# Text from .jpg?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 21, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-from-jpg/369624 "2006-08-21T18:02:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-from-jpg/369624/1 "2006-08-21T18:02:14Z")

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I have some .jpg’s of text that I’d like to convert to editable text. Is there an easy method, without printing and scanning to OCR? Freeware?

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-from-jpg/369624/2 "2006-08-21T18:03:43Z")

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You got two options: Either type it out yourself or use OCR. You don’t need to print and scan to use OCR; most OCR software can work directly with image files.