Friday, May 29, 2015

OCR shoot-out: Microsoft OneNote versus Google Docs

I wanted to copy the text from the photo of a document.  Using my phone, I uploaded the JPG file to a OneNote page using Microsoft Office Lens and then in the Modern version of OneNote, I selected the image and choose "Copy Text".  This is what I got:

Teacher Is  
She is reullg good  
She me about  
She alwags sags  
This is Teacher  
Over Ibe summer she will  
L give my teacher q:  
(Che I  
n thumbs up Mg favorite thing  
gears old.  
n Five Stars  
(D Love  
Teacher Karen Is  
She Is reallg good  
gears old.  
She me about  
She alwags sags  
This is Teacher  
Over the summer she will  
L give teacher q:  
n An A for Awesome A +  
n Two thumbs up Mg favorite thing about her is  
n Five Stqrs  
CD Love 


Quite horrible.  So I uploaded the image to Google Drive from my desktop, right-clicked on the file in Google Drive > Open with > Google Docs.  Result:

Shetாghtme bout
I give M teqcher :


Shetாghtme bout
I give :
| | Two thumbs | lawrite thing abouther is
Five Stars O

Even worse.  In fact, I had to rotate the photo to be portrait for Google Docs to spit anything at all out.  So for this particular photo, OneNote "wins".

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