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Microsoft is rolling out a text extractor tool to the Snipping Tool in Windows 11, giving you another way to extract text and data from anything on your screen with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) ...

One of my favorite iPhone tricks, which I use all the time, is called Live Text. Apple introduced the feature in iOS 15, and it's available on iPhones as old as the iPhone XR/XS series. The name is ...

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Microsoft is adding a new feature to Windows 11’s Snipping Tool: text extraction. This tool, which has been quite popular in PowerToys, is now being integrated directly into Windows 11’s built-in ...

Gboard now offers a Scan Text feature, allowing you to copy text from the real world. This is effectively a stripped-back version of Google Lens’s optical character recognition smarts. Gboard’s ...

This tutorial shows you how to copy all text as a table from a screenshot in Snipping Tool on a Windows 11 PC. For this, we will use the Copy as table feature. It’s a new feature that generates ...

Extract text from images on Android using 7 methods: Google Lens (real-time or from your gallery), Keep Notes (grab image text), Microsoft Lens (OCR extraction), Google Photos’ copy text, Samsung’s ...

Why it matters: Windows 11's Snipping Tool already allows you to copy text from images, offering functionality similar to Apple's Live Text – but Microsoft's implementation involves a few more steps.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s not quite the same as doing it on a desktop. It’s not quite the same as doing it on a desktop. Cutting, ...