How to use OCR Tools

This guide walks you through using OCR tools for creating questions.

# Step 1 — Acquire the questions

Before you use OCR, you need to have either a pdf or questions picture.

• To create pdf from printed books, you can use
  • Document Scanner
  • Adobe scan app
  • any other favorite pdf app
• You can take pictures direction from your phone camera and upload it to your compute.

# Step 2 — Go to Create Question and open OCR Tools section

Go to question editor (Question Bank -> Create -> select question type). In the Question Editor, click on open OCR tool.

# Step 3 — Open Question Source

1. For images, you need to click on Open Image. For pdf, you need to click on Open PDF button. This opens the pdf/image viewer in the right of the editor.

2. Select right amount of zoom.

3. Select correct page.

4. Click on Select button:

# Step 4 — Select Right Tool and Start Editing

You can drag on the image/pdf to point to the area of interest. After that,

# Copy Tool

On Click of copy tool, the rectangular area gets copied to the clipboard and you can paste (CTRL+V) any where on the editor (either questions or choices)

# OCR Tool

On Click of OCR tool, the rectangular area gets OCRed and system tries to find out question and its choices. Then it creates a question with the choices it is able to find.

Once OCR text is in the question, you can verify the text, correct it if wrong and save the question.

Note: OCR is not able to detect Mathematics notations correctly. For this, you can update the tex inline.

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Next: Reviewing Questions — learn how to review and publish questions.