Tools for OCR. Optical character recognition (OCR) allows extracting textual content from images. It is mainly used for document numerization, to transcribe letters, handwritten or not.
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dCode does no allow to make character recognition from a file. However, here is a list of online tools that could help.
Free-OCR.com http://www.free-ocr.com/ : online, free and fast, limited to 6Mo.
New OCR http://www.newocr.com/ : online, fast, free, with a crop selection.
Online OCR http://www.onlineocr.net/ : online, free, limited to 4Mo.
Google Docs http://docs.google.com/ : require a Google Account, by opening an image or a PDF in Docs.
GOCR http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ : open-source, software for Windows or Linux.
Tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr : open-source block used in Google Docs.
Abbyy FineReader http://finereader.abbyy.com/ : another advanced software, a bit cheaper.
How to recognize a font used in a picture?
What Font Is (link) : free, images < 1.8 Mo and 80000 font library.
Identifont (link) : free, developed by MIT.
What The Font (link) : free, online, images < 2 Mo.
How to recognize handwritten text?
Today (2016) there are no reliable handwriting recognition software.
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