This week we used an OCR (Optical character recognition) program in order to just simply convert text from the real world into a digitized version. I chose to use an app from the Apple App Store known as “Text Scanner (OCR)”. The app was free to use and really easy to navigate through. All it took was to find the book I wanted to extract text from and take a picture of the page I chose. Finally, all I had to do was crop the image so that text from the page didn’t interfere and click the convert to text button.

I did notice some errors within the scan but it did an overall good job in making it into digital text. I will definitely be using this app when the time comes.