Have you ever captured a photo of a sign or poster to have the information handy for later reference? Our smartphones have made it incredibly convenient to snap pictures of anything in an instant, and ...

A Chrome extension called Project Naptha allows you to highlight and copy text from an image, with more features on the way. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

Phone Link app earlier called the Your Phone app is one of the most useful applications developed by Microsoft since the release of Windows 11/10. It is one of the easiest ways of keeping our devices ...

There’s a lot to be excited about with the new iOS 15.4 update, like the ability to use Face ID with a mask on, the biting lip and 122 other new Emojis, and a new camera feature that lets you scan ...

One of the most handy Google Photos features just landed on the desktop—via your browser—where it could be even more valuable. The mobile version of Photos supports a technology called Google Lens. In ...

Microsoft PowerToys is getting a new utility called PowerOCR that lets you select text in an image and copy it directly to the Windows clipboard. The new PowerToy is being developed by Windows ...

There are many reasons why you may want to copy text out of an image. Maybe you took a picture of the menu from a special meal and want to copy the courses into a memory book. Or perhaps you're ...

Sareena was a senior editor for CNET covering the mobile beat, including device reviews. She is a seasoned multimedia journalist with more than a decade's worth of experience producing stories for ...

Live Text is a new feature in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey that allows users to select, translate, and search for text found within any image. The demo used during the keynote was a meeting ...

In the realm of technology, the ability to extract or copy text from images is a powerful tool. This capability, made possible through Optical Character Recognition (OCR), is now within your grasp, ...

OneNote has a version of the Microsoft Store app. Office’s OneNote. While it makes OneNote of much better use to those who use it as their primary note-taking app, an issue reported by many is that ...

It's generally just accepted that text embedded in images on the Web is inaccessible. Because images are rendered as a single layer, that's just the way it is ... or was, because a new extension for ...