Open any image containing text in the web app, and you should see a Copy text from image link appear at the top.

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.

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.

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.

Luckily, there’s a workaround use can use to copy any text (or tap any un-tappable phone numbers or addresses) on your screen. And, weirdly, it requires you to take a screenshot first.

Well now this will be useful! Microsoft is adding a text recognition function (OCR) to the Windows 11 Snipping Tool. The new feature will let you to copy text from screenshots and paste it into ...

Live Text picks up a new trick in iOS 16, letting you grab text from a video. Here's how you copy text from a video in iOS 16 — and why you'd want to.