Selecting and copying text from an image, no matter what device you have, is easy to do with the help of built-in tools and extra add-ons.

With various tools available at your disposal, you no longer have to manually copy text from the images on your computer. You can use Windows 11â s built-in or free third-party tools to extract ...

The next time you come across text inside an image, or if you’re on a website that blocks copy-paste, use the keyboard shortcut to activate Text Extractor, and click and drag over the text to ...

Smartphones have a feature that allows you to copy text from photos. Kurt "The CyberGuy" Knutsson explains how this useful option allows you to save time.

Capture2Text is a free software for Windows that lets you extract & copy text from images & save it to the Clipboard. Quickly OCR a portion of computer screen & copy it to the clipboard.

Sending images to Bing for processing is a little cumbersome, plus you can’t trigger it with a keyboard shortcut. That’s why I recommend a free app called Capture2Text.

To paste, hold Cmd and hit V. To cut text, hit Cmd + X instead. You can also right-click or control-click on text or an image, then click “Copy,” then do the same and hit “Paste” to paste it.

Extracting text from images (or other visual documents) is quite a task. However, if you are a Mac user, you can use TextSniper to easily capture text from images, screengrabs, PDFs, presentations ...