Hi!
A couple of months ago, I wrote about how cool it was to use the “Text Extract” Feature in PowerToys (link). And hey, this is a super cool feature.
Now we have a similar feature, out of the box directly in Windows 11 with the Snipping Tool (link).
Let’s look at this feature, over a screenshot of an OpenAI email. This feature uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR), which means we can now scan the text within our captured images.
We have the option to either copy a selected portion of the recognized text or copy all the text from the screenshot before saving it.
Additionally, you can also censor sensitive text and then copy the remaining part of the text from the image. It’s a handy tool for working with text in your screenshots.
Super cool!
Happy coding!
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El Bruno
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Top comments (1)
That's great! Thank you for sharing this information! It's great to hear about the new text extraction feature in Windows 11's Snipping Tool. Having Optical Character Recognition built-in makes it much easier to extract and work with text from screenshots. I'll definitely give it a try!