Microsoft testing text recognition in Windows 11 Snipping Tool

[Jan]

Microsoft adding image-to-text support to Windows 11

Microsoft has added text recognition to the latest build of its Windows 11 Snipping Tool to let users copy text from screenshots, Bleeping Computer reports.

Dubbed Text Actions, the feature is available to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels with Snipping Tool version 11.2308.33.0.

 

[The_MAC]

This is one tool I use a lot, it's super useful

 

[Dimpie (JIGSAW)]

Lightshot is my goto screenshot tool

 

[Vis1/0N]

I was surprised how easy it is to implement some sort of text recognition and how accurate it is - on a low font size (terms and conditions) it was decent enough, and better on screen raster. Using existing libraries like tesseract it is a few lines of code.

Performance and processing was the tricky bit on scanned images, image to image req tweaking.

 

[RedViking]

If I didn't use Snagit (Camatasia) , I'll probably make use use of the Snipping Tool more.

Snagit already does screen grab to text.

 

[zoozi]

This function's been available in Windows Powertoys for quite some time.