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How to Make a Flowchart
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Troubleshooting
AI OCR
OCR, also called Optical Character Recognition, is an advanced technology enabling computers to recognize and transform printed or handwritten text into a digital format. This digitalized text can be effortlessly modified, searched, and stored in a database for convenient access and organization.
Using EdrawMax's integrated OCR function, you can easily retrieve text from images with minimal effort by following a few uncomplicated steps. Here is how:
- Select the AI tab to access the AI feature in the EdrawMax interface. Find and choose the Image Text Extraction option.Then the OCR window will be displayed.
- Inside the OCR window, click on Select a document to import the image file containing the text you want to extract.
![select document in EdrawMax](https://images.wondershare.com/edrawmax/guide2023/ai-ocr/select-document.png)
Once the file has been imported, the OCR feature will initiate the process of identifying the text present in the image.
![click the start button to extract text in EdrawMax](https://images.wondershare.com/edrawmax/guide2023/ai-ocr/start-extraction.png)
Then, you can conveniently modify the identified text. To modify the hierarchy and structure of the text, you can utilize the [Tab] and [Shift + Tab] keys to increase or decrease the indentation.
After making the necessary edits, you can click create to incorporate the recognized text into your drawing:
Note:The purpose of the OCR function is to identify text within images, and how accurately it performs can be influenced by factors like image quality and text legibility.