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Windows 11 | Windows 10 News on these iconic operating systems. => Windows 10 Help | How To & Fixes | Tips & Tricks => Topic started by: javajolt on December 31, 2020, 11:18:55 PM
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Sometimes you want to extract snippets of text from a screenshot, picture, or app (for example a reader app that won’t let you copy or a PDF that is an image rather than text).
There are of course various apps to do Optical Character Recognition (OCR) but Windows 10 has a built-in tool that makes the process very quick and easy for small amounts of text.
Surprisingly we will be using the built-in Windows Search tool, and the process goes as follows.
Step 1: Get your text on the screen (e.g. this difficult PDF in the browser).
(http://i.postimg.cc/gc3SZv4Y/extract-text-1.png)
Step 2: Click on the Windows Search icon (the magnifying glass on your lower left), and then click on the Search with ScreenShot button.
(http://i.postimg.cc/prBJ1J1z/extract-text-2.png)
Step 3: Using your mouse, highlight the area of text you want to process.
(http://i.postimg.cc/KYgry2HZ/extract-text-3.png)
Step 4: Windows will then pass the image to Bing, who will do the recognition of the text, which you can then copy and do with what you want.
(http://i.postimg.cc/rmkWXt4J/extract-text-4.png)
source (http://mspoweruser.com/tip-ocr-text-from-images-windows-10/)