The first step is to place the picture you want to scan text from your OneNote 2013 workbook. You can do this by pasting the image in or selecting it through the Insert > Pictures button from the ribbon.

With a photo in OneNote, right-click the image, and from the context menu, choose “Copy Text from Picture.”

OneNote will instantly grab all of the text from the image and then paste it into a giant text block. From there, you can copy the text and paste it wherever you want. Note that the OneNote’s OCR capability isn’t 100% accurate, but you can increase the accuracy by pulling text from high-resolution, high-quality images.

Comment Name * Email *

Δ  Save my name and email and send me emails as new comments are made to this post.

How to Capture Text in Images with OneNote 2013 - 37How to Capture Text in Images with OneNote 2013 - 18How to Capture Text in Images with OneNote 2013 - 5How to Capture Text in Images with OneNote 2013 - 25How to Capture Text in Images with OneNote 2013 - 82How to Capture Text in Images with OneNote 2013 - 62