To convert, simply upload your image file (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP and TIFF) which cannot exceed the size of 1MB. Resize and rotate it to achieve the best recognition results, and then click on “Send” button to start the process. Once completed, recognized text will be displayed at the bottom of the same page.

NewOCR supports 29 languages which include Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

Features:

• Extract text from scanned documents or images.
• Unlimited uploads, no registration, 100% secure.
• Supported image file formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP and TIFF (any compression mode).
• Works with image files up to 1 MB in size.
• Multilingual support for 29 languages.
• Optimize image to achieve the best recognition results by resizing and rotation.
• Similar tools: OnlineOCR, FineReaderOnline, Free-ORC and OCRTerminal.

Check out NewOCR @ www.newocr.com

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There could be many uses of this tool like for masking your email address, sending confidential info on IMs, posting things on forums which you won’t like search engines to discover and more. It doesn’t require sign up and is easy to use.

Features

• Quickly convert text into pictures online.
• Customize the font type, color and size of the text.
• Get the direct url, forum url and the HTML code of the image.
• No registration required.
• Similar tools: SpamProofEmailGenerator and HideText.

Check out TxtNinja @ www.txtninja.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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The application is free and easy to use. To start,  simply register on the site and upload your image, pick a the language and output format and hit “Recognize”. Once the file is converted you can save it on to your computer. Currently you may process up to 50 pages a day with each file being under 10 mb.

Features:

• Online image text extraction tool.
• Lets you process 50 pages a day for free.
• Supported input image formats: BMP, PCX, DCX, JPEG/JPEG, PNG and TIFF/TIF.
• Supported output file formats: Microsoft Word, Excel, RTF, and TXT and PDF.
• The file must not be larger than 10 MB.
• Multilingual recognition: Russian, English, German and French.
• Simple and clutter free design.
• Similar apps: Free-ORC and OCRTerminal.

Check out FineReaderOnline @ www.finereaderonline.com

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To convert text to image simply type into provided field and click on the “Web2.0!” button. In return you will get an image that can be saved on to your computer or embedded on your site or personal webpage.

Features:

• Convert text to image online.
• Download and save generated text images to your computer.
• No registration needed.

Check out web2.0write @ www.web2.0write.com (via bildirgec)

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I particularly like the feature which converts email address to an image. It looks pretty neat and if you have a blog, you can use it to display your contact information and at the same time prevent the spam bots from copying it. Much better than writing your email address in ‘abc at gmail dot com’ format.

Also see SpamProofEmailGenerator a similar tool that  we have profiled earlier .

Check out Hidetext @ www.hidetext.net (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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