You can expect a few quirks. Whether it's a piece of paper covered with notes or a whiteboard crammed with scribbled ideas, don't you wish you could just copy those words and paste them somewhere else ...

OK, I admit it. I’m a sucker for the latest gadget. I bought a smart notebook with all the upgrades to write my daily to-do lists digitally. Yeah, $600 later, I’ve used it 11 times. It’s easy to waste ...

Lens could already help you copy text from the real world to your smartphones. This feature now also works for copying text to your desktops and laptops. Say you have a handwritten note you want to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OK, I admit it. I’m a sucker for the latest gadget. I bought a smart notebook with all the upgrades to write my daily to-do lists digitally. Yeah, $600 later, I’ve used it eleven times. It’s easy to ...