T here are many ways to copy text that can't be easily selected, but few that are as simple and fast as Text Lens ($6)—a new Mac app by prolific developer Sindre Sorhus.Text Lens lets you select ...

There are few things worse than trying to copy a string of text from a PDF, only to find that you can't highlight any text at all. Thankfully, bypassing a locked PDF is easy enough to do on Mac.

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 ...

To quickly and easily copy and paste text messages in Google Messages, here’s what you need to do: Open Google Messages. Open the text message you want to copy and paste.

To copy text from an image on Samsung in Gallery app. Make sure that if you're pulling text from an image you haven't taken yourself, the photo is saved to your Gallery app or camera roll.

Copying text from a photo is no different than copying a text or a website, which means all you have to do is: Open Photos. Open the photo you want to copy. Tap the text in the photo.

Copy and Paste Text. A simple copy-and-paste sequence works great for moving content from a webpage to another location. You will, however, need a place to paste websites in a text-style format.

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 ...

To extract text from a single picture you’ve added into OneNote, right-click the picture, and click Copy Text from Picture. Click where you’d like to paste the copied text, and then press Ctrl+V.

However, Live Text is a little different from Google Lens in that you can use it in real time with your camera to select, copy and paste text, as the iPhone is trained to recognize useful information.

There are many ways to copy text that can't be easily selected, but few that are as simple and fast as Text Lens ($6)—a new Mac app by prolific developer Sindre Sorhus.Text Lens lets you select ...