Did you ever snap a photo of a magazine page, or capture a screenshot of text, and wish you could just copy and paste it like any normal text? Maybe it’s a photo of a recipe from a paper book, and you ...

The Adobe Portable Document Format has become a standard among business and governmental agencies for storing and distributing records. Adobe's Acrobat PDF reader product is free, but it doesn't allow ...

In the realm of technology, the ability to extract or copy text from images is a powerful tool. This capability, made possible through Optical Character Recognition (OCR), is now within your grasp, ...

If there's ever been a time where text was physically written or typed on an offline document and you needed it on your phone, you probably had to spend time typing it out yourself, right? Well, there ...

Reader Amy Campbell has all the right reasons for extracting data from an iPhone. She writes: A Mac-using relative recently passed away, and there are some SMS and voicemail messages on her phone that ...

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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 ...

RTF is short for Rich Text Format, a format created by Microsoft to allow documents to be read across different operating systems. This is useful if your business clients use a variety of operating ...

Amazon Web Services on Wednesday announced the general availability of Textract, a fully managed service that uses machine learning to automatically extract text and data, including from tables and ...

A little while back, I covered how the Snipping Tool on Windows 11 was getting a new OCR feature. At the time of writing, it's still in the preview channel, so only those who opt into Windows beta ...