Live Text picks up a new trick in iOS 16, letting you grab text from a video. Here's how you copy text from a video in iOS 16 — and why you'd want to.

How to copy any text from a photo on iPhone. Once you upgrade to iOS 15 or iPadOS 15, Apple will scan all the photos in your library for text. This text OCR is done in the background, and it’s ...

How to scan text into other iPhone and iPad apps. This feature shows up all over the devices it’s available on, reaching far beyond the built-in Notes app.

Rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, TextSniper lets you pull any text you see on the screen into a text document. That includes scans, screenshots, pictures, graphics, and even videos.

This time last year, Google brought extra Lens tools, like the ability to translate text in your photos or copy it to another app, into the Google Photos app. Previously, you had to use the ...

Lens already had text recognition, allowing you to pull text from the real world into your device's clipboard. Now, you can send that text to another device on which you're logged in with Chrome.

Bhargav Sai asked for a way to pull text out of a GIF image and make it editable. Optical character recognition (OCR) software has been around for a long time. But for the most part, it’s still ...