How to convert image to text for free using Google Drive (OCR in Google Drive)?

Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, is a technology that enables you to convert different types of documents, such as scanned paper documents, PDF files or images captured by a digital camera into editable and searchable data.

Google Drive now has a feature that lets you convert scanned images and PDFs to text. It is a painless process that will save you a lot of typing if in case you need to get the text from scanned documents. All you need is a Google Account and of course the image (that contains the text) to upload.

In a nutshell, the process to convert the image (containing text) to text is: