Thanks, sieghard! No jaws but I’ll try your steps.  Good to have your expertise!
Harry

> On 21 Sep 2018, at 17:30, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I assume you don't have access to Jaws? With Jaws 2018 and later it's as easy 
> as pressing a shortcut key combination when you are on any image file in 
> Windows Explorer.
> You might want to try the following, I did a Google search for "Online OCR of 
> jpg files":
>  
> Free Online OCR  service allows you to convert PDF  document to MS Word file 
> , scanned images to editable text formats and extract text from JPEG 
> /TIFF/BMP ...
> Here is the link:
> Free Online OCR - convert PDF to Word or Image to text
> Once you are on the page, look for the  “Choose Files” button, it says above:
> 1 STEP - Upload file   2 STEP - Select language and output format   3 STEP – 
> Convert
> Sounds like most online converters and it will probably work well enough.
>  
> Regards,
> Sieghard
>  
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> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 9:22 AM
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> Subject: Extracting text from a jpg image?
>  
> Can anyone tell me which app can ocr a jpg image? The French teacher of a 
> class I’m going to has started sending French articles to us as jpg files. 
> I’ve tried TextGrabber and KNFB Reader but neither can get anything. I’m 
> using iPhone 7 Plus and a 2018 iPad, iOS 12. Might my MacBook Pro on high 
> Sierra do a better job?Recommendations welcome!
> Thanks
> Harry
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