How AI Improves Keyword Research

Artificial intelligence can reveal content gaps and opportunities to improve organic search rankings. It is also helpful for keyword research.

Traditional keyword tools extend core terms with long-tail phrases. AI tools discover new terms by identifying related queries with the same search intent but not necessarily the same words.

What follows are AI tools for keyword discovery. Push these suggestions through traditional keyword research tools to discover long-tail opportunities and additional insights such as search volume and keyword difficulty.

I tested each tool with the same core phrase: “take text from image.”

SEO.ai

SEO.ai offers a free AI-powered tool to generate keyword suggestions. For “take text from image,” it produced the following variations.

text from image services
image to text conversion
OCR services
image transcription services
document digitization services
scanned documents to text
photo to text service
handwriting to text conversion
image processing text extraction
OCR text recognition
convert image to editable text
image text analysis
image to word conversion

Junia

Junia provides free AI-powered research and complementary data from Google Ads’ Keyword Planner on competition, monthly search volume, and cost-per-click. Junia’s suggestions were the most relevant to my initial phrase. I’ve reproduced them for this article.

Keyword	Competition	Search Volume	Cost-per-click
take text from image	Low	2,900	$0.61
take text from picture	Low	2,900	$0.61
take text out of image	Low	320	$0.65
take out text from image	Low	320	$0.65
get text from screenshot	Low	210	$0.68
take text from photo	Low	170	$0.43
take words from image	Low	140	$0.48
take a picture and convert to text	Low	110	$1.19
take the text from an image	Low	110	$0.84
take picture convert to text	Low	110	$1.19
take picture and convert to text	Low	110	$1.19

Optimo

Optimo’s keyword research tool identified helpful phrases beyond my core term.

Text recognition
OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
Image to text conversion
Text extraction
Image processing
Text conversion software
Character recognition
Image analysis
Text extraction tool
Text recognition technology
Image text recognition
Document scanning
Text capturing
Image data extraction
Text identification

Ryan Robinson

Ryan Robinson is a content and SEO consultant. His AI keyword research tool offers helpful suggestions. The “Explore” tab lists keywords based on a core term, as well as search volume and organic search competition, which he calls “difficulty” (without explaining its calculation).

image to text
text from image
image to text converter
convert image to text
text extractor from image
text from picture

Clicking the light bulb icon next to any suggestion generates long-tail variations:

image to text converter free
image to text converter google
image to text converter free online
image to text converter extension
image to text converter app
image to text converter reddit
image to text converter adobe
image to text converter python
image to text converter mac

VidIQ

VidIQ offers an AI-powered YouTube keyword research tool. Each suggestion includes search volume on YouTube, without, again, an explanation. Still, the ideas were helpful.

OCR software tutorial
extract text from image
image to text converter
text recognition app review
easy text extraction tool
best image OCR technology
convert handwritten text to digital
text recognition software comparison
improve text extraction accuracy
automated text extraction demo

LowDifficulty.ai

Low Difficulty’s Free Keyword Generator lists ideas based on the (undefined) ranking difficulty. The tool also provides cost-per-click and, confusingly, monthly “Search volume” and “Global volume.”

Here’s what it offered for “take text from image.”

Keyword	Difficulty	Search Volume	Global Volume	Cost-per-click
retrieve text from image	3	2,400	8,400	$2.58
fetch text from image	3	2,400	7,300	$2.58
extract text from image	5	12,100	46,400	$2.30
grab text from image	5	590	2,200	$1.89
extract text from picture	5	12,100	43,900	$2.30
extract image from text	5	12,100	44,500	$2.30
extract text in image	5	43,600	43,600	$2.30
picture extract text	5	46,400	46,400	$2.30
pull text from image	6	3,200	3,200	$1.98
pull text from an image	6	3,400	3,400	$1.98
text a image	13	46,300	46,300	$1.19
recognize text from image	15	720	2,800	$3.10
scan text from photo	18	2,200	2,200	$2.56
scan text from image	20	6,100	6,100	$2.75

Consult Several

The AI tools suggested mostly original keyword ideas, although some overlapped. Consult several when researching.