Added new image correction filter to Image Reader - Equalize. This filter is based on the Histogram Equalization algorithm which evenly distributes pixel's color intensity across the image, which makes too light regions darker, too dark regions lighter, and adjusts the contrast. It can help to normalize low-contrast images and also images, which have both too dark and too light regions which make it impossible to correct them using either Brightness or Contrast filter. In particular, it can be helpful to correct the image this way before ORC. The next video shows how it can be used if other filters do not help:

Hello all, Let me introduce my new online product - Image Reader. Oftentimes, when using Optical Character Recognition software to extract and recognize text from an image, you get bad results if use default configuration, especially if the image scan resolution is less than 150 dpi. If recognize computer graphics, like text from screenshots or images from the web, then things become even more worst, because the standard resolution of web graphics is not more than 72 dpi. That is why need to pre-process images to increase recognition accuracy. This tool is an online text recognition web application with image pre-processing features. It allows to upload an image with text, apply different filters to it and then recognize text and save it to file or copy to clipboard. Also, this tool can be used as a playground for computer vision beginners to try and understand in practice what exactly needs to do with images to increase text recognition quality. Please see the demo video to understand what I mean and definitely try yourself. But even if after all attempts you will have some images, that you could not recognize, please, just press the "Report Poor Quality" button to automatically send these images to the support service. We will use them to check and train our OCR engine to improve the quality of service. Will be happy to hear what to add or improve in comments here, in Vote form on the site, or in comments on Youtube video, wherever comfortable for you.

Happy to say that Google Chrome Extension for the Image Reader service is now published on Chrome Web Store. You can install it from here: https://chrome.google.com/websto.... Using a Chrome browser extension, text recognition becomes one step easier. After installing it, just do a right mouse click on any image with text and select "Recognize text with Image Reader" from the context menu. This video shows the demo: https://youtu.be/LrnVEmgvnpg .

Also, please see a demo video: https://youtu.be/WsuZHyAuDTI