Monthly Archives: September 2020

Keep 5 desktop OCR applications close by to boost productivity

September 28, 2020 / Dong Liu

Perhaps there are plenty of scanned documents to deal with. Or maybe you are overwhelmed by heaps of paper. How do you extract the information from piles of printouts? I bet with my paycheck no one is willing to retype the text word by word. The solution here is to use an

A beginner-friendly app to compress PDFs, videos & images

September 22, 2020 / Dong Liu

Perhaps movies and MVs take up much space on your hard drives. Maybe PDFs and images are too large to attach to an email. The internet is flooded with tools to decrease the size of a video, compress an image, or make a PDF smaller. But it's not easy to find one

A compact OCR tool to extract the text from screenshots, 100% accuracy guaranteed

September 9, 2020 / Dong Liu

Last week, I found much valuable content from a bunch of infographics when reading a copywriting guide on Backlinko. Typing each word to copy the text would be definitely a weighty way. So I did a Google search for "OCR screenshot" and "extract text from image". Then, a compact tool caught my