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OCR

Optical Character Recognition, commonly known as OCR, is a powerful technology that allows computers to identify and convert printed or handwritten text into digital format. This digital text can be easily edited, searched, and stored in a database for convenient access and organization.

With EdrawMind's built-in OCR feature, you can effortlessly extract text from images in just a few simple steps. Here's how:

• Click on the AI tab in the EdrawMind interface. Locate and click on the Image Text Extraction option. This will open the OCR window.
• In the OCR window, click on Select a document to import the image file from which you want to extract text.

• Once the file is imported, the OCR feature will start recognizing the text within the image.

• Now, you can easily edit the recognized text. Each paragraph corresponds to a subtopic in your mind map. To adjust the hierarchy and structure of the text, you can use the [Tab] and [Shift + Tab] keys to increase or decrease the indent.

After editing, you have two options to incorporate the recognized text into your mind map:

• Click on the Insert paragraphs as subtopics button to add each paragraph as a separate subtopic.
• Alternatively, you can choose the Insert current topic option to add the entire recognized text to the main topic.