OCR Recognition is an add-on to extract texts from PDF, forms or images.
Listing updated:December 16, 2024
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Overview
Extract all the texts from your documents! Transform your PDF to classic text document and modify them. You can also convert tables to excel like in Google Sheets. 

This optical character reader tool allows you to transform invoice, receipt and other documents into Google Docs or Google Sheets documents. 

The optical recognition is the best of the market. It is using algorithms from Azure which have been voted to be the best OCR tools on the internet since 2008 by OCR Website ranking!

The intelligent character recognition is similar to OCRopus but can convert docs directly to Google Sheets. It can change handwriting to text
 

In just one click you can get all the text from a form, an image or a PDF.
It does not matter if it is handwritten or computer written, the add-on recognize and return the text from your documents!

If you upload a picture it will be basically similar to capture2text, this is like a textscanner or numberscanner! 

You can get spreadsheets directly populated from the document with all the cells values directly written as expected in a spreadsheet.

Read form automatically and save a lot of time! 

Imagine how much time you will save thanks to this amazing application.
You can automate the processing of your forms in Google Sheets™ and get fields populated directly!

It recognize handwritten and computer text, there is absolutely no limit to the time you will earn!!

OCR Text Recognition is simple and easy to use. 
Just upload your documents and get your texts recognized in few seconds!

We do not keep any data from documents, the data is only used for the recognition process and deleted from our server once it is done.

Let us know what you think and how to improve this software by sending an email at [email protected]

Thanks!
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PricingFree of charge trial
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OCR Recognition for docs, spreadsheets, PDF will ask for the permissions shown below. Learn more
OCR Recognition for docs, spreadsheets, PDF will need access to your Google account
This will allow OCR Recognition for docs, spreadsheets, PDF to :
View and manage documents that this application has been installed in
View and manage spreadsheets that this application has been installed in
Display and run third-party web content in prompts and sidebars inside Google applications
Connect to an external service
See your primary Google Account email address
See your personal info, including any personal info you've made publicly available
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Laurence Courtois
May 31, 2024
Amazing add-on! Game changer for me, I used to copy paste data from PDF to excel , now it is done automatically! Thanks!
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Farkas Gabor
November 3, 2024
Waste of time.
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Thomas Chedy
May 1, 2024
The OCR for table is the best! I saved so much time, thanks a lot!
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Md. Mahfuzul Islam
November 23, 2024
Its not working.
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Franco Raviolo
June 24, 2024
There is a very small limit with the free version
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Steven Carico
June 27, 2023
The feature to export PDF to google sheets directly is actually incredible. It probably saved me days of annoying copy pasting, thanks a lot!!
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Tyson Kreger
April 26, 2023
Said it was free, got it all installed and figured out finally. then it only converted a small amount of text and said "upgrade to get the full text from the document". What a waste of time.
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Alexandru Dumitru
July 7, 2023
Just use FileDrop as it works great as an alternative to this add-on.
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Grady Ward
February 26, 2023
Useless if you need more than a few hundred words. It tries to extort you.
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Я smarteR
May 12, 2023
not even showing up on Google Drive right click !
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