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 ...

Extract text from images on Android using 7 methods: Google Lens (real-time or from your gallery), Keep Notes (grab image text), Microsoft Lens (OCR extraction), Google Photos’ copy text, Samsung’s ...

On some Google and Samsung phones, press and hold the Home button to invoke Circle to Search and copy text from an image. Another option is to install Google Lens, launch the app, select your image, ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are plenty of reasons why you might want to pull the text out of an image you find online: instructions on a YouTube still, for example, or items on a printed menu, or inspirational quotes 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...