Well now this can be helpful! Microsoft is including a textual content recognition perform (OCR) to the Windows 11 Snipping Tool. The new function will allow you to to repeat textual content from screenshots and paste it into phrase processing applications, for instance. Currently, solely Windows Insider testers from the Canary and Dev channels can attempt the brand new textual content copying function within the Snipping Tool, although if all goes properly you possibly can count on to see it hit all Windows 11 machines in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.

The new perform, referred to as “Text Actions,” is on the market in Snipping Tool model 11.2308.33.0. A Microsoft supervisor explains:

“We’re introducing “Text Actions” that recognise textual content in your captured screenshots so you possibly can simply copy and share textual content from a picture or paste it into one other software

Dave Grochocki, Principal Product Manager Lead for Windows Inbox Apps

How to make use of the brand new Text Actions

To use the brand new function, first click on the “Text Actions” button on the Snipping Tool’s toolbar to show the selectable textual content, then deciding on and copying the textual content together with your mouse. You can choose and replica textual content with the Snipping Tool app through the use of the “Copy all text” button on the toolbar or keyboard shortcuts corresponding to Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C.

Confidential data could be eliminated

The software additionally gives the power to edit the textual content, for instance to take away confidential data, earlier than pasting the textual content into one other software or sharing it with different customers. You can click on on “Quick Redact” within the toolbar and the software will routinely redact mail addresses and telephone numbers (see an instance here). Alternatively, you possibly can choose the textual content you wish to disguise after which right-click on “Redact text” within the context menu.

This article was translated from German to English and initially appeared on pcwelt.de.