It is very easy in Java to read an image and you can store the image contents as flat file. To achieve this, read the image file using ImageIO class in Java and convert the array of bytes into String ...

Sometimes, you scan a document but want to make changes to it but do not know how to; there is a feature in Microsoft Word that can extract text from images, especially if it’s an image of a document.

Google's web-based document editor can now convert the text inside your PDFs and images into text you can edit. When you upload a file to Google Docs, you'll see the option to "Convert text from PDF ...