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How to Extract Text From Images Using Microsoft PowerToys With the Image To Text Feature

With the 0.86 update, the Microsoft PowerToys tool lets you extract text from an image. Here is how to use it. Requirements Microsoft PowerToys version 0.876 or higher…

With the 0.86 update, the Microsoft PowerToys tool lets you extract text from an image. Here is how to use it. Requirements Microsoft PowerToys version 0.876 or higher…

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With the 0.86 update, the Microsoft PowerToys tool lets you extract text from an image. Here is how to use it.

Requirements

  • Microsoft PowerToys version 0.876 or higher installed
  • Advanced Paste in enabled in PowerToys

 

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Step-by-step guide

Copy the image you want to grab text from. Or, if you are seeing something on screen you want text from, simply take a screenshot of it. Copy the screenshot then. You can use Win+Shift+S to take a screenshot of a selected area of the screen using Windows Snip.
Go to the place where you want to paste the text content from the screenshot you took above.
With the cursor on a text field, press Windows+Shift+V to open the Advanced Paste menu from PowerToys.
Select “Image to text” to paste text from an image. All the text from the image copied will be pasted.

Done.

 

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