The ability to convert images to text is technically referred to as
Optical Character Recognition (OCR). It can be really useful
whenever you need to convert a paper document into an editable,
digital form.



There aren’t many OCR apps on android. Of the few that are
available, Google Goggles is the most popular one. It’s entirely free
and does exactly what it promises – copy text from a picture and
paste it elsewhere.


Main features

Google Goggles converts an image of text to actual text that you
can copy, paste and manipulate in any other way.It can translate
the resulting text into many different languages.It can recognize
business cards and add them to your Android device as contacts.
This whole process just takes a single tap.


Google Goggles cannot precisely be described as a perfect OCR
app, but it delivers quite well. It converts any image into copyable
text. You can then paste this text into a document editor, your
email app, your note-taking app, SMS, or just about anything else. It
easily recognizes business cards and automatically adds the
details to your contacts. It’s also able to translate text into tons of
languages.



Other OCR Apps

There aren’t a lot of competitors to Google Goggles on the Android
marketplace. The second best app that you can use to convert
images to text is ScanDoc Document Reader . This scanner
channels the resulting text into many apps on your device, with just
a single click. Unlike Google Goggles, though, the app doesn’t
perform well when it comes to doing everything it promises to do
since there are occasional failures sending the text to apps such
as Dropbox (at least for us). They’ll probably fix these bugs but it
also isn’t free. The interface also doesn’t come across the board as
intriguing. However, if you find that Google Goggles isn’t precisely
what you want, ScanDoc might work for you.


Google Docs is also equipped with an OCR feature that works
pretty much the same. The main advantage of the Google Docs
OCR feature is that it recognizes line breaks, which makes the
resulting text presentation much more enticing. But since it’s part
of Google Docs and not really a specific-OCR app, it doesn’t have
as much versatility as the other apps described above. It saves text
directly to Google Docs, so if you need the text elsewhere, you’ll
have to manually copy and paste.


There’s also a selection of document scanning apps available on
Android, but these are not truly OCR. Rather than convert text on a
picture into editable text, most of them turn it into a PDF document.
That means you have no capacity to edit the text or use it with any
of your other apps such as SMS and any document editors.
However, this can be a useful functionality if you’re looking to
capture details and email them in the form of PDF. CamScanner is
just about the most awesome document scanner there is for now.
You can send the resulting PDF to multiple apps, including Google
Docs and Dropbox.


Another decent app is Document Scanner , which lets you use the
OCR capabilities of Evernote and Google Docs, but isn’t quite as
fast or effective as Goggles.





A Screenshot from Facebook converted to text





Handbill converted to text

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The app didn't really work well on hand written text, however I be
it may work on some individuals Handwriting

Source - http://www.naijatechguy.com/2016/08/how-to-convert-pictures-to-text-on.html

Hmmm

Thanks