{"id":1224,"date":"2025-04-17T01:13:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T01:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2025-04-17T01:13:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T01:13:56","slug":"windows-11-is-about-to-get-a-nifty-shortcut-for-copying-out-all-the-text-from-an-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/2025\/04\/17\/windows-11-is-about-to-get-a-nifty-shortcut-for-copying-out-all-the-text-from-an-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11 is about to get a nifty shortcut for copying out all the text from an image"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Snipping Tool feature now in testing will sort you out in a jiffy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scr.wfcdn.de\/29556\/Snipping-Tool-Version-11.2503.27.0-1744781108-0-0.jpg?width=660&amp;height=176\" alt=\"Snipping Tool Version 11.2503.27.0\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Windows 11 is powering up the Snipping Tool in testing right now<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A new feature allows you to copy all the text from an image straight away<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>There\u2019s no need to take a screenshot first, as was previously the case, so this is a neat time-saver<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoftis making it even easier forWindows 11users to be able to extract text from images (or any content) on the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Windows 11 already has this OCR-powered (Optical Character Recognition) ability, as you may be aware, but at the moment, it\u2019s necessary totake a screenshot first with the Snipping Toolbefore you can extract text from that image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a new update for the Snipping Tool that\u2019s just been released (which was leaked previously), you don\u2019t need to grab a screenshot to perform text extraction any longer \u2013 although bear in mind this is still in testing at this point (so may still be wonky).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AsNeowin reports, with previewversion 11.2503.27.0of the Snipping Tool, you can simply hit the<strong>Windows + Shift + S<\/strong>keys together, and this will pop up the capture bar for the tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, instead of having to create a snip (screenshot), the \u2018text extractor\u2019 option will be right there in the bar, so you can just click that, with no need to save a screen grab first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/detail-Microsoft-1746960-MQ20\">MQ20 Battery for Microsoft Surface Pro 9 2032 1996 1997 2038<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/AguPJKioeo2eQesJ72UrYV-970-80.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Image credit: Microsoft)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"analysis-power-toys-to-the-people-3\">Analysis: Power(Toys) to the people<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Essentially, this is directly integrating the ability to extract text from images (or any screen content) into Windows 11, with no additional steps needed, mirroring the functionality present in Microsoft\u2019sPowerToys suite of tools(for advanced Windows users) \u2013 and it\u2019s definitely going to be appreciated by folks who use this capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s obviously less of a hassle than having to clear the hurdle of actually grabbing a screenshot, if all you\u2019re interested in doing is copying all the text that\u2019s currently visible on your monitor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/detail-Microsoft-1746441-G3HTA071H\">G3HTA071H Battery for Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 1964<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I say<em>all<\/em>the text, but that\u2019s only what happens if you use the \u2018Copy all text\u2019 option provided. If you just want a specific portion of text, you can manually select and extract only those words (it\u2019s also possible to remove line breaks if you want).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft is slowly expanding Windows 11\u2019s OCR powers, and you may recall that late last year, thePhotos app got Optical Character Recognition built into pull text from images directly within the application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snipping Tool feature now in testing will sort you out in a jiffy Microsoftis making it even easier forWindows 11users to be able to extract text from images (or any content) on the screen. Windows 11 already has this OCR-powered (Optical Character Recognition) ability, as you may be aware, but at the moment, it\u2019s necessary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/2025\/04\/17\/windows-11-is-about-to-get-a-nifty-shortcut-for-copying-out-all-the-text-from-an-image\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows 11 is about to get a nifty shortcut for copying out all the text from an image<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-windows-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}