There are many ways to copy text that can't be easily selected, but few that are as simple and fast as Text Lens ($6)—a new Mac app by prolific developer Sindre Sorhus. Text Lens lets you select any ...

Microsoft's Snipping Tool on Windows 11 is a handy way to capture specific screenshots on your PC, and it's now getting an upgrade to make copying text from images way easier. In a blog post published ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s easy to perform these basic actions on your Apple device — but you have to know how. It’s easy to perform ...

It’s not quite the same as doing it on a desktop. It’s not quite the same as doing it on a desktop. Cutting, copying, and pasting are actions that are regularly performed in apps and between apps: ...

There's also the Mac clipboard, though you'll need a separate app if you want to look back through your clipboard history. Reading time 3 minutes Get ready for the two keyboard shortcuts you’ll get ...

Khamosh Pathak is a freelance tech journalist with over 13 years of experience writing online. An accounting graduate, he turned his interest in writing and technology into a career. He holds a ...

One of my favorite iPhone tricks, which I use all the time, is called Live Text. Apple introduced the feature in iOS 15, and it's available on iPhones as old as the iPhone XR/XS series. The name is ...

Irene Okpanachi is a Features writer, covering mobile and PC guides that help you understand your devices. She has five years' experience in the Tech, E-commerce, and Food niches. Particularly, the ...

There are few things worse than trying to copy a string of text from a PDF, only to find that you can't highlight any text at all. Thankfully, bypassing a locked PDF is easy enough to do on Mac. If ...

Extract text from images on Android using 7 methods: Google Lens (real-time or from your gallery), Keep Notes (grab image text), Microsoft Lens (OCR extraction), Google Photos’ copy text, Samsung’s ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. There are many ways to copy text that can't be ...