How to Copy Text From Images

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⚛️ Sometimes, using an image of a screenshot isn't what you need. I'll show you how to use Windows built-in Snipping Tool to extract the text from an image. ⚛️ Copying text from images If you see text on your screen but can’t copy it, use Windows’ Snipping Tool. Press Shift + Windows + S, select the text area, and click “Text Actions” to extract the words. You can copy and paste the result into a message or search. While not perfect, it’s very good (and getting better) and saves a lot of typing. Updates, related links, and more discussion: https://askleo.com/181247 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: https://go.askleo.com/ytsub ✅ Watch next ▶ What’s a Screenshot, and How Do I Take One? ▶ https://youtu.be/hK6D2jqjPuI Chapters 0:00 Copy Text From Images 0:30 Screenshots for tech support 2:00 Take a screenshot 3:30 Text actions 3:50 OCR Optical Character Recognition 6:00 Bigger text is better ❤️ My best articles: https://go.askleo.com/best ❤️ My Most Important Article: https://go.askleo.com/number1 More Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com to get your questions answered ☑️ https://newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter. ☑️ https://askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com/all-the-different-ways-to-get-ask-leo/ for even more! #askleo #copy #image-text