5 Minute Trick: Extract Text From Images Using Google Drive Super Easy

Hello, today SaDesign would like to share with you a small but extremely useful "secret" for office workers, students, or anyone who has to process a lot of documents: How to extract text (OCR) from images using only Google Drive. Have you ever wanted to get a long paragraph of text from an image without having to type each word by hand? Don't worry, Google Drive will help you handle everything "smoothly" with just a few simple steps.

1. Why choose Google Drive for text separation?

1.1. Free & Available

Google Drive is one of the most popular online services today, and with just a Google account (ie Gmail), you already have 15GB of free storage. This means you don't have to spend extra money on expensive OCR tools, nor do you need to install any complicated software on your computer.

With Google Drive, you can always upgrade your storage plan as needed (if you work with large amounts of data), but the basic free version is enough to serve the needs of separating text from images for most office, academic, or personal users.

1.2. Security and synchronization

Google Drive stores your data in the “cloud” – meaning all your files are synced online, reducing the risk of losing data if your computer or phone is damaged or lost. You only need an Internet connection to access, edit and share files anytime, anywhere.

In addition, Google Drive also has a data encryption mechanism to ensure the safety of user information. You just need to pay attention to the security of your Gmail password, activate 2-step verification if necessary, and you can rest assured to "assign" all documents to Google Drive.

1.3. Powerful character recognition technology

The biggest plus when it comes to extracting text from images using Google Drive is the integration of OCR (Optical Character Recognition). Google has been developing this technology for many years, with the ability to:

Multi-language recognition: From English, Vietnamese to many other languages ​​in the world.
Accuracy keeps improving: Smart algorithms continuously “learn” from real-world data, helping to recognize even less common fonts.
Fast & Easy to Use: Just open the image with Google Docs, the text will be automatically displayed below as soon as the OCR process is complete.
Thanks to modern OCR technology, Google Drive can extract text from images with high accuracy, even when there are punctuation or Vietnamese accents. This helps users save time and effort instead of having to retype manually.

2. Instructions for separating text from images using Google Drive

Step 1. You log in to Google Drive

Step 2: Upload the image file you want to separate text from to your Google Drive

Right click (or click the NEW button) –> Upload file

Next, you select the image that you need to separate the text from => click Open to Upload the file to your Drive account (suppose I upload the image file below)

Step 3: Open the uploaded image with google docs

After successfully loading the file, find the location of the image file you just uploaded => and right-click on that file => select Open with => then select Google Docs.

The conversion to Google Docs will take a few seconds, after converting to Google Docs you will have a text extracted from the image as below.

The extracted text will be located below the image. The better the image quality, the more accurate the text extraction will be.

Try it now with a photo containing the text you need to extract. You will be surprised by the speed and accuracy that Google Drive brings. If you find it useful, please share this article with everyone around you so they can know about this quick solution.