How can I get text out of a .jpg quickly ?

I use Fast Stone Capture to grab scroll down pages and save them as
.jpg files, quite frequently but some weeks/months later I need to grab some of the text
off one of the saved .jpg's but can't - Does anyone know a quick way to
be able to grab the text please ?

There does not appear to be an App. that will convert - any clues if I save
the pages as something else other than a .jpg which would enable grabbing text off the page sometime in the future ?

 

No flying pigs here. Unless there's something I haven't heard of they'd need to first be printed, then scanned with OCR soft.

 

Sounds like an OCR task.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1054333/copy_extract_text_from_images/

 

This new site, Comet Docs, claims conversion from JPG to PDF: http://www.cometdocs.com/

 

Oh, duh. It's getting late.

OneNote would work! It can search jpg files for text and save as text.

 

Try InstantOCR.com, online OCR which can convert pics to text/doc/pdf.
Its free in beta.

http://www.instantocr.com/

 

you may want to try JOCR (standalone or as part of JExplorer). See http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/Product_JOCR.html

 

Thanks to all you guys who tried - I gave a couple of things a go such as Peter mentioning to save as a .PDF, but also as he said, it does not allow to highlight and grab a bit - I checked Simple OCR, and Wilber's OCR link - 842. the JOCR looked the goods but it needs M$ Office which I don't have, I tried Pure Text, it was hopeless, tried PDF2Text, hopeless - I shall have to get used to File - Save As a Text file, and then also capture the scroll down Web page - a bit of a fiddle but better than nothing.

Regards.