It is very easy in Java to read an image and you can store the image contents as flat file. To achieve this, read the image file using ImageIO class in Java and convert the array of bytes into String ...

Google's web-based document editor can now convert the text inside your PDFs and images into text you can edit. When you upload a file to Google Docs, you'll see the option to "Convert text from PDF ...

I need to scan and convert text from printed documents about, oh, about once per leap year. So it makes no sense for me to own a scanner or waste hard disk space with OCR software that I virtually ...

Windows only: Free application ASCGEN, or Ascii Generator dotNET, takes in standard pictures and puts out images generated entirely from simple computer text. While free web apps like ASCII-O-Matic do ...

For the first time ever, Google Translate can now be used with images. That means that you can throw an image at the Google Translate website on your Mac or PC and have it translate any text it finds ...