

Tap on this option to copy the image's text to your iPhone/iPad's clipboard, then 'Paste' that text in whatever app you choose! Easy!Īll 1800-number Accessibility Accessories Activity Monitor Adware Airdrop Airplay Airpods Alarms Alerts Android Apple Id Apple-id Appleid.apple. Once this syncing and translation has happened, just tapping on the image will reveal the 'Copy text' option. This may take a couple of minutes, so be a bit patient. This means that the image needs to 'sync' via your internet connection, be translated by Onenote, then sync'd back to your OneNote note on your device/s. The only trick is that, after you have taken or imported the image, you need to give OneNote a chance to translate the image into text. It is very easy, and relatively quick to do this in OneNote (which is a free app in the App Store). This will save you having to re-type that text, which can be an enormous time saving if you have a lengthy hard copy document to get into digital form. Well, if I take an image in OneNote, or import an existing image into OneNote, and if that image has any writing on it (for example, an image of a hard-copy document that needs to be typed up), OneNote will allow you to 'copy the text' from that image and paste it somewhere else! Axiolys industry-leading optical character recognition software (OCR) brings the best results when converting an image, a document or a picture to text.


Microsoft has just introduced an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) capability to its OneNote app and product. I just prefer Evernote!īut, after reading an article today, I have found a good reason why I will occasionally now be using OneNote - especially on my iPhone and iPad. Now, I am a dedicated Evernote user so don't use the Microsoft equivalent, which is called OneNote.ĭon't get me wrong - OneNote is an excellent product, and does much the same thing as Evernote.
