Please stop extracting text from images by typing manually...

Starting with this one because it has been around for so long.. and yet kinda forgettable for me.

I'm sure that there are slick applications out there in the market.. However Google Docs can easily do the work for free albeit with reasonable limitations.

How:

Upload your image to Google Drive > right click on the image > open with Google Docs.

That's it. Yep the formatting might be all over the place and you have to do it one image at a time. Significant time saved.

However if it's just a few words we are talking about.. definitely type it out.

Notes:

Apple users can copy and translate text from photos on your iPhone or iPad .