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Selecting and copying text from an image, no matter what device you have, is easy to do with the help of built-in tools and extra add-ons.

If you're wanting to convert an image into text, Google Docs has a powerful Optical Character Recognition feature built right in. Here's how to make it work.

Pick out text from scanned signs, receipts, documents, and more.

Microsoft Word has features that can help you extract Text from an Image, especially from scanned documents. Learn how to do this!

Adobe Scan – turns screenshots, saved images, photos, business cards and even white board notes into a digital file and unlocks the text using OCR. The app is for iPad and iPhone.

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 ...