Text and bitmapped images are two different kinds of animals. Text can be typed, edited, copied, pasted, deleted, and processed. Images, however, are a bunch of pixels in a grid that combine in the ...

There are a number of reasons why you might want to extract the text from an image. Perhaps you have a business card and you want to enter the details into your Contacts, maybe you just don’t fancy ...

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.

Windows 11's Snipping Tool is one step closer to getting a nice upgrade. Support for text extraction through the capture bar in Snipping Tool is now in testing among Windows Insiders in the Dev and ...