So scan two actually has two pages in it. But then under it, it converted it to text. So the results I got here is actually the jpeg image in an document. So there's scan.jpeg and I'm going to Control Click, Open With, Goggle Docs and it will read the jpeg image. It's the same text there and we're going to do the same thing there. But in general it does it and it does it pretty quickly and easily. It's been read by a computer so you should actually look through it and edit it to make sure that everything is correct. Now I can edit it, make changes to it, actually read the text. I'm actually in a word processing document now. What I'm going to get here is the actual text. It's going to read the characters on the image and convert it to text. If I open this pdf in Goggle Docs what it's going to do since it doesn't edit pdf's, it is going to convert it. So Goggle Docs is their suite of apps like a word processor, spreadsheet, etc. The one item that we're going to use is Open With, Goggle Docs. So instead I'm going to Control Click on it and you get some items here. Now I could go and just view it but I'm still just going to be viewing the pdf with the image it. I'm going to select that pdf file, choose it, and it will open up here on Goggle Drive. If I open it up here in Preview and you can see it's an image. This scan.pdf is the one I'm going to use. So I'm going to hit New, and do File Upload. So I'm going to go to and of course you sign in with your goggle account there.

So using their free tools is an easy way to be able to scan a document into text and not have to add anything new to your Mac or buy a new App or anything. If you've ever used gmail you've got a Goggle account. There is a way to do this using Goggle Docs and Goggle Drive. So people are always looking for kind of free ways to do it or ways to do it using things they already have. But if it's not something that you need to do all the time, then you may not want to add an entire new app or sign up for a new service just to do this. There are tons of different apps that will do this. In other words how you take an image or a scan and then convert that to text that you can actually edit in word processor. Video Transcript: So I'm often asked questions about OCR. Check out Using Google Docs to Convert Scans to Text at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

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