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 ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is gradually becoming an essential element in any operating system environment. Streamlined through the age that it has lived, OCR has become a mainstream feature ...

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 ...

Microsoft's Snipping Tool on Windows 11 is a handy way to capture specific screenshots on your PC, and it's now getting an upgrade to make copying text from images way easier. In a blog post published ...

In macOS Monterey, Apple introduced a feature called Live Text that can automatically recognize text when it appears in an image in Safari, Photos, Preview, Quick Look, and elsewhere, allowing you to ...

For as long as I can remember, there has been a categorical split between text and graphics. Speaking broadly, you can search, copy, edit, and otherwise manipulate text by the character, word, ...

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 ...

How to Convert an Image Into Editable Text Using Microsoft Word and Adobe Your email has been sent If you receive a picture of data, don’t panic: You don’t have to enter it by hand. Microsoft Word can ...

Live Text was introduced as a new feature in macOS Monterey, and it allows you to use the text in an image. It’s a feature that’s quite helpful—for example, if you’ve ever been in a meeting or lecture ...

Microsoft's Phone Link is a free and handy app that can sync phone calls, messages, and notifications between your smartphone and your Windows PC. The Android version even lets you access photos from ...

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 ...

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 ...