Want to learn more? Check out these articles and free resources in the community. Obviously, this is still a bit tedious, but it is an easy way to get the text from your old e-learning courses when you no longer have the source files or original content. Once you have the text, it’s easy enough to copy and paste it into your new course. Many of you already own OneNote, and if you don’t, you can always use the free ShareX application to do your screen grabs and OCR text conversion. Those are two free to low-cost options to quickly get the text from previous e-learning courses. Copy and paste the text into the new slide.ShareX extracts the text from the image.
It also has an OCR feature where it can pull text from an image that can be copied and pasted into a new slide. I use it quite a bit to do screenshots for uploading to various image sites. Use ShareX to Convert Text from Images for Flash to HTML5 Courses Once you have the text copied, paste into your new slide.Right-click on the image to copy text from the picture.Play the old Flash-based course and capture screens using OneNote’s screen clipping feature (or insert an image captured from some other application).OneNote has a screen capture feature and the option to copy text from the captured image. It’s a great application included in the Microsoft Office products. Use OneNote to Convert Text from Image for Flash to HTML5 Courses This works whether you’re using Storyline or Rise. Here are a couple of simple ways to copy the text from old Flash e-learning courses that you can add to updated HTML5 e-learning courses without having to retype everything. But adding text from the old course isn’t as easy because most Flash courses don’t allow selecting text to copy and paste. And who wants to spend hours retyping the text? It’s easy enough to extract the media (like images and video) from the published output. All you have is the published course but not the original source files. Many of you have to convert old Flash courses to HTML5.