The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology has made it possible to recognize and read the text within the scanned documents and images. OCR lets you convert the read-only text into an editable form. The converted text can further be processed for operations such as text analysis. In this article, I’ll show you how to perform OCR on images (PNG, JPG, BMP, and GIF) and convert images to text using Java OCR API - Aspose.