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 ...

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.

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) ...

The Windows Photos app is getting background blur, and Snipping Tool will copy text from your PC or Android screenshots. The Windows Photos app is getting background blur, and Snipping Tool will copy ...

Well now this will be useful! Microsoft is adding a text recognition function (OCR) to the Windows 11 Snipping Tool. The new feature will let you to copy text from screenshots and paste it into word ...

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 ...

Microsoft has introduced an option to extract text from images with Snipping Tool. The feature will be available to all soon. The tool now ships with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology ...

An upcoming version of Microsoft Corp.'s Phone Link app for Windows 11 users will add the ability to select and copy text from images synced from Android phones. The feature, currently in beta testing ...

Microsoft has a new feature that allows you to copy and paste text from your Android phone’s images, straight from the Phone Link desktop app in Windows. Here’s how to use it. Phone Link can be a ...

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 ...

What just happened? Microsoft has started rolling out updates to the Snipping Tool and Phone Link applications in Windows 11 for Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels. The updates bring some notable ...