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How to copy texts from images with Snipping Tool’s Text Action
Text Action is one of the most useful features Microsoft released in a while.
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Published onSeptember 15, 2023
published onSeptember 15, 2023
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Microsoft released new features for theSnipping Tool appon Windows 11 in the Windows Insider Program channels, and one of the most exciting ones is the Text Action feature, which will effectively allow you to get the text from the images you save on your computer.
The best part: you can do so with very few clicks, and it’s an extremely useful feature when you need to handle lots of images and data for different projects.
This feature is literally a game-changer for data analysts, researchers, educators, scholars, and students, but of course, everybody can use it.
With this update to Snipping Tool (version 11.2308.33.0), we are introducing Text Actions, which detects text in your captured screenshots, making it easy to copy text from any image to share with others or paste in another app.
Snipping Tool recently got another useful feature: the ability to record your screen through it, and we have to say. We love the love Snipping Tool is getting from Microsoft.
However, the main star is the ability to copy texts from images with Snipping Tool’s Text Action, and we’re going to show you how to do it.
How to copy texts from images with Snipping Tool’s Text Action
And this is it. You can also use the Text Action to quickly redact an image’s text. To do so, you’ll need to repeat the process of taking a screenshot with Snipping Tool and selectQuick Redactin the Text Action panel.
This option will allow you to redact any part of the image that you want. The layout of the quick redact option should look like this.
Microsoft says the quick redact option gives you the ability to hide sensitive information from any image that you share, and we couldn’t agree more. It’s a very useful feature.
With Text Actions, you can also redact sensitive information in screenshots before sharing. Select Quick Redact from the toolbar to automatically hide emails and phone numbers or select any text and select Redact Text from the right-click menu to hide the text.
Microsoft should really come up more often with such useful features. What do you think about them?
More about the topics:Windows 11,Windows Update
Flavius Floare
Tech Journalist
Flavius is a writer and a media content producer with a particular interest in technology, gaming, media, film and storytelling.
He’s always curious and ready to take on everything new in the tech world, covering Microsoft’s products on a daily basis. The passion for gaming and hardware feeds his journalistic approach, making him a great researcher and news writer that’s always ready to bring you the bleeding edge!
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Flavius is a writer and a media content producer with a particular interest in technology, gaming, media, film and storytelling.
