Scan Images Into Text with Google Keep's OCR Feature

Scan Images Into Text with Google Keep's OCR Feature


Chrome: If you're a regular Google Keep user, you might have missed a (relatively) new feature in the app. If you paste an image into a note, Google lets you convert the image into editable text.

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