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.

To enable the hidden OCR feature in Windows 11 Photos app, update the app, access the Registry Editor via regedit, load the Photos app settings file, and apply specific registry keys. Once enabled, ...

Every day while working on my articles, I have to deal with a lot of images; cropping them, removing text, changing backgrounds and much more. I used to rely on separate online tools for each of these ...

Microsoft has added an OCR function (Optical Character Recognition) to the Windows Photos app, which basically means it can now recognize text in an image and instantly extract it for you. To use this ...

Microsoft is adding a new feature to Windows 11’s Snipping Tool: text extraction. This tool, which has been quite popular in PowerToys, is now being integrated directly into Windows 11’s built-in ...