Hi, I've been tasked with finding a tool which will allow the converting of an image which includes text into an editable format. The design idea is actually a type of street art and so the text is irregular and not something that can be commonly created with any font that would fit this specific design idea. Is there a tool that can allow us to load in an image which includes text and then create a somewhat editable version of it? Thanks for any ideas in advance!

Edited September 4, 20205 yr by victoriarothstein

In summary, it's called Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Just google online OCR. 

Try this: https://www.onlineocr.net/

no. 

you would need a text recognition part (so far so good) but once the text was recognised then—  as you say — you wouldn't have a font to match it so would have to anaylse the letters recognised that are there and automatically produce font with the missing letters and then use that. 

why not just take a background and use photoshop/similar with an airbrush and reproduce it? 

 

2 minutes ago, DaddyFinco said:

In summary, it's called Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Just google online OCR. 

Try this: https://www.onlineocr.net/

that hopefully recognises the text but how would you go about making new text?

23 hours ago, davep said:

that hopefully recognises the text but how would you go about making new text?

Okay sorry I misunderstood the goal.

I've always imagined something like this too.  Planning on building such a tool cause I've not really seen any that meets exactly this requirement.

I think a graphics design software like Photoshop will be your best option now

I think the online OCR program will help you
I used it on my website and it was good

Do a Google search

I think the online OCR program will help you
I used it on my website and it was good

https://emdadino.com/

Do a Google search