I’ve lost a lot of hours to copying text from scans and photos of documents I’ve found on the web or taken for my own records. Some websites (particularly older websites that relied too much on flash ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A new feature in Phone Link will let you select text in photos synced from your Android phone, but it’s probably ...

A little while back, I covered how the Snipping Tool on Windows 11 was getting a new OCR feature. At the time of writing, it's still in the preview channel, so only those who opt into Windows beta ...

One of my favorite iPhone tricks, which I use all the time, is called Live Text. Apple introduced the feature in iOS 15, and it's available on iPhones as old as the iPhone XR/XS series. The name is ...

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We’re in 2022, so grabbing text from a website or a document should be pretty easy, right? But that’s not always the case. There might be part of a site that doesn’t easily let you copy some text, or ...