How we can convert hard copy of Hindi into soft copy?  Google is not limited to convert scanned documents of English into text format. Google provides you this facility for 3 dozen languages and Hindi is one of them. However image based Hindi document when converted into text format then there are a lot of mistakes and this document needs heavy proofreading. In this scenario OCR facility of Google drive does not seem applicable.

www.i2ocr.com is a website that provides you facility to recognize the Hindi language with another language also. This website does not recognize pdf format so you will have to submit your file into image format like jpg, bmp, png etc. this facility is available for free of cost.

Indsenz is another foreign company which is developed by Oliver helwig . IndSenz Hindi OCR easily recognizes the simple formatted Hindi document. But this facility is not available for free.

How first method of i2ocr works?

First go to this website www.i2ocr.com/free-online-hindi-ocr. After that clicks on lets OCR and then uploads your file of Hindi document and then save it with image format and select your language for Hindi. After that click on extract button thereby your uploaded file will start to convert into text format. After processing you will see two boxes. One will have the Hindi version and the other one in formatted text file. Copy that content and paste it in a word file. If file is available on web then you can put address of that file directly to convert. This facility is also available. You can find 90% of the content is successfully converted.