The cloud storage service can extract text from photos taken with Windows Phone devices, useful for shots of business cards, train schedules, and memos. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Microsoft is making it easier to extract texts from on-screen content without having to take a screenshot of the same first, X user PhantomOfEarth reported. This is going to be possible using the same ...

Microsoft has announced a new feature that extracts text from images stored on your camera roll when viewed on SkyDrive.com. In a partnership with Bing, the optical character recognition (OCR) tech is ...

Microsoft today updated its OneNote note-taking service with optical character recognition (OCR) support across all platforms. The company also released a new version of its iPad app, adding ...

OCR or Optical character recognition is an useful technology to convert an image into a machine readable text. The image can be of a scanned document or a printed text. Though the OCR software are not ...

Microsoft has updated its cross-platform note-taking tool, OneNote, on iPad, adding two new features that make it easier to capture ideas naturally. The latest version adds handwriting support so you ...

Examples of these types of data elements include social security numbers, names, phone numbers, account numbers and so on. A second major feature of Redact-It Desktop 1.1 is the software's new ability ...

The version for iPhones now lets you use the device's camera to translate signs, menus and the like, while the version for Android devices can work offline. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...

Currently, Microsoft’s Office Lens is a specialized mobile application for pulling images of whiteboards and other visual information into Word documents and PowerPoint presentations. But Microsoft ...

At its Build conference earlier this year, Microsoft launched its developer services for Bing, including the Bing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Control. Today, the company announced that it is ...