Barely a week after it made its note-taking tool OneNote completely free, Microsoft today said it had provided OneNote with OCR support across all platforms. OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition, which we have explained here.
Until today, OneNote only supported OCR in Windows. With today’s new move, Microsoft has now made it possible that text within any image inserted into a laptop saved on OneDrive is searchable in OneNote on all PCs, phones, Tablets, among other platforms.
Microsoft updates OneNote with OCR support across all platforms, iPad app gets … – VentureBeat
http://news.google.com Feb 19, 2015
Microsoft today updated its OneNote note-taking service with optical character recognition (OCR) support across all platforms. The company also released a new…
Microsoft OneNote Now Totally Free For Mac And PC – Ubergizmo (blog)
http://news.google.com Feb 17, 2015
There is no shortage of note-taking applications out there that work across a variety of platforms and offer cloud sync so that users easily get their notes across all….
Microsoft’s OneNote for Mac adds OCR support – The Next Web
http://news.google.com Feb 18, 2015
That means you can now scan your OneDrive notebooks to detect text in new images. Once the OCR has finished, you can copy the text it finds and save it in your notes. Microsoft …
