On some Android phones, like the ones from Google, Samsung, and a few others, you can use a built-in Android feature called ...

Text Lens is a Mac app by Sindre Sorhus. It lets you select text that you otherwise cannot copy, such as text from PDFs, images, videos, and more.

This lets me copy text from images in the Snipping Tool without installing PowerToys or resorting to an online tool to extract text from images.

Once text is copied to Screen's clipboard, it automatically will exit copy mode. Paste Text Once you have text in the copy buffer, you can switch to a different Screen window, open a text document in ...

Microsoft’s PowerToys has a new utility that lets you copy text from images: If someone sends you a picture of their business card or a screenshot of their bank account details, you can use ...

Android SwiftKey Copy any text on your screen by highlighting it, and tapping the Copy button. Next, tap the clipboard button at the top of the keyboard.

Apple’s iOS 15.4 update launched in March 2022. If you haven’t been copying text from images to make Notes in your iPhone, you need to check out this time-saving hack.

Anything on your screen can be converted to text with this tool, providing you can take a screenshot of it. You could pause a video, for example, and copy the text, or you could copy a paragraph ...

You can copy and paste text on your iPhone using the gestures, like pinching three fingers inward to copy, or outward to paste.

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.

Apple has improved the ways you can quickly select, copy, and paste text, but the new gestures take some learning — especially if you regularly used the previous ones.

Learn how to copy and paste text, images, and other content between Office apps on your iPad.