Free-OCR can handle images with multi-column text and also supports 29 languages. One odd restriction is that it takes only the first page of a PDF document while performing OCR.

OCR has been slow to arrive in Microsoft Photos, but the truth is… OCR already exists in Microsoft Photos. For some reason, it’s been hidden from users and can only be enabled with an advanced ...

Enabling OCR in Google Photos makes it easy-peasy to take a picture of a document, book, or anything else on your phone, open it in your browser, and quickly copy its contents into an Office file.