Learn how to use the built-in Snipping Tool in Windows to extract text from images.
There are all kinds of reasons why you might want to extract text out of images. Maybe you've taken photos of restaurant bills and you want to make a record of what you've eaten; or perhaps you've got a bunch of screenshots that you need to get product names out of; or you could have scanned in some important documents that need sorting.
Whatever the reason, Windows comes with built-in tools for picking out text from image files (technically known as OCR, or Optical Character Recognition)—in fact, there are several different ways, so you can pick the one that suits you best. Here's how to get started, assuming you already have your images saved somewhere. Using the Snipping Tool You can extract text with the Snipping Tool. Screenshot: Microsoft The Snipping Tool is the easiest way to extract text from images on Windows. You can launch the utility from the Start menu, either by searching for it or by finding it on the full list of apps. Once you've got the program open, click the three dots (top right), choose Open file, and pick the image you want to work with. With the image on screen, click the Text actions button on the toolbar—it looks like a series of lines with a frame around it. After a few moments of thinking, you'll see the Snipping Tool highlight all of the text in the image, while the rest of the picture fades out. You've got a couple of options here: You can click and drag across any of the highlighted text to select it, and then copy it to the clipboard (and from there to another app): So you could, for example, drag the cursor across an address in an image, then press Ctrl+C to send it to the keyboard, and Ctrl+V to paste it into another Windows program. Your other option is to click the Copy all text button on the toolbar at the top—this sends all the text in the picture to the clipboard, so you don't need to spend time selecting it all manuall
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