Microsoft is giving Snipping Tool a major OCR upgrade in Windows 11

Snipping Tool is one of the most useful apps to be found in Windows 11, making light work of grabbing on-screen content. Primarily concerned with taking screenshots, it has developed over the years to include a handy OCR component for extracting text. And now this feature is in line for an upgrade. Microsoft is improving the text extraction capabilities of Snipping Tool so that text can be grabbed without the need to take a screenshot first. See also: If this sounds familiar, it’s probably because you’re a PowerToys user. This collection of add-on utilities has included the Text Extractor module… [Continue Reading]