How to copy the text in any image using the Windows Photos app

2025-07-25 12:44:00
www.pcworld.com

Microsoft has added an OCR function (Optical Character Recognition) to the Windows Photos app, which basically means it can now recognize text in an image and instantly extract it for you.

To use this feature, open any image that contains words or lines of text using the Photos app. Then, click on the “Scan text” button—which looks like a rounded square with three lines of text inside—located at the bottom of the app window. It’s right next to the “Visual search with Bing” button. You can’t miss it!

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Once clicked, the Photos app will scan the image and highlight all of the text it finds. You can then interact with it like it’s actually text, meaning you can highlight passages with your cursor and right-click to perform actions like copying text, selecting all text, or using Bing Search to look up whatever text you currently have highlighted.

This is a great feature to use if you’re constantly dealing with screenshots of documents or web pages and need a quick way to pull all of the text (or specific bits of text) out of them.

Further reading: How to use the AI features in Windows Photos to perfect your pictures

This article originally appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.

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