14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has just announced that its SkyDrive cloud-based storage service has received OCR (optical character recognition) support for photos, which means that it can now extract text from pictures stored in your account.
The feature is available in several languages, including English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and German, and is now being released for customers all over the world.
“When you take photos with your Windows Phone (with auto-upload turned on) today, we send them to your SkyDrive camera roll folder. With this new SkyDrive release, our OCR tool will automatically run on your camera roll photos so you can instantly see the extracted text whenever you view your photos on SkyDrive.com,” Mona Akmal, member of the SkyDrive team, said.
The extracted text is displayed whenever you open a photo in your SkyDrive account, but in case you’re not seeing the option right now, just wait a few more days for the global rollout process to complete.