There are many reasons why you may want to copy text out of an image. Maybe you took a picture of the menu from a special meal and want to copy the courses into a memory book. Or perhaps you're ...

Microsoft PowerToys is getting a new utility called PowerOCR that lets you select text in an image and copy it directly to the Windows clipboard. The new PowerToy is being developed by Windows ...

So, of course, there's a PowerToys utility for that. The recently added Light Switch utility lets you create a global custom ...

Microsoft's Snipping Tool on Windows 11 is a handy way to capture specific screenshots on your PC, and it's now getting an upgrade to make copying text from images way easier. In a blog post published ...

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You’ll soon be able to use Phone Link to copy text from your Android phone’s photos, allowing you to use it in Windows 11. This should be faster than using the Snipping Tool’s text functionality. The ...

There are plenty of reasons why you might want to pull the text out of an image you find online: instructions on a YouTube still, for example, or items on a printed menu, or inspirational quotes in ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A new feature in Phone Link will let you select text in photos synced from your Android phone, but it’s probably ...

In the following sections, we will show you how to enable or disable ‘auto-scan images for text’ in the Microsoft Photos app. However, before that, please note that the update is currently released ...

How to Convert an Image Into Editable Text Using Microsoft Word and Adobe Your email has been sent If you receive a picture of data, don’t panic: You don’t have to enter it by hand. Microsoft Word can ...