Copying text from pictures on Windows or digitizing written text

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What is the tutorial about Copying text from pictures on Windows?

In this video tutorial (Copying text from pictures on Windows) I will show you how to copy text from a scanned document, from a picture or even from a book.

Of course we will use OCR technology, which is already integrated in Windows, through the Snipping tool application or in English

Why copy text from physical documents or pictures

It's simple, because it's information that we sometimes need.

Let's say we have a paper to do for school or a presentation for work where we need to copy text from a book and paste it into the paper.

The classic variant is to look with our eyes and copy word for word, but that takes time. So it's easier to take a picture to copy the text from.

How to copy text from physical documents in digital format?

Copying text from books or photographed or scanned documents is based on the OCR technique, which stands for Optical Character Recognition.

OCR is a technique of scanning pixels in search of letters to recognize and copy.

OCR can also be called digitization of written text

How to digitize written text on Windows

We have several solutions for copying text from pictures or scanned pages, but today I will show you the simplest one.

We will use the Crop Tool application, which is already installed on Windows. I use Windows 11.

To copy the text from the picture or scanned pages, we just have to open the picture with the Snipping Tool application, if you have Windows in English, press the "Text Actions" button and copy the text that you can paste anywhere.

If the option does not appear, update the application Cutout and sketch