If you like manually entering information/text from jpg’s and images please disregard this post…

I think this is a handy tip though.

Say I have a low quality jpeg that looks like below.. I want all the text from it.. but the problem is, it is an image..!

Not a problem!.. read below.

Open the image in Adobe Acrobat Pro.. im using version XI… but you can use version 9 too.

From the edit menu select “Edit Text & images”

A new bar appears on the right.. in the “Text Recognition Section” – select “in this file”.. (You can also do this for multiple files)

If you just want what you are looking at select the “current page” otherwise select all pages

Now the magic happens.. all the text is selectable… just copy and paste to wherever you need it.

Now in excel