From the course: Automating Your Work with Custom GPTs (No Code Required)

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Extract text from images

Extract text from images

- [Instructor] Let's build a GPT that can pull text from an image. This can come in handy in all kinds of situations. Maybe you have a handwritten note that you want to convert into editable text, maybe you need to repurpose some text from a printed document that you took a photo of. We'll start again by going to Explore GPTs, and we'll come up and click Create to create a new GPT. And here under the Create tab, let's say we want to make an assistant to extract text from an image and convert it to plain text that can be easily copied and pasted elsewhere. The GPT builder offers to name it Plain Text Extractor. I'll just say, "That's fine." Next, it'll generate an image for our GPT. And again, I'll just accept that. But again, you can ask for it to refine the image or redo it if you like. So now it's asking me if I want to give this GPT a test run, but in this case, I do want to refine the assistant a bit. I should probably specify what kind of images we'll primarily be using. Maybe I…

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