- The Windows 11 cut tool seems to obtain an improved OCR function
- The new OCR option can copy the text more easily from anything on the monitor screen.
- It is still in tests, but hopefully will reach the finished version of Windows 11 soon
The Windows 11 cut tool could soon turn on with a new impressive way to extract the text from anything on the screen.
This capacity was discovered in regular taxpayers tests to leaks related to Windows 11 in X, Phantomofearth. However, we are not told what construction comes, so presumably it was the last launch of the previous view, or a recent one.
The cut -up tool is obtaining a full -screen OCR extractor that is essentially the Powertoys tool, in the entrance tray, making use of the best OCR models used by the cut tool! Here is a demonstration. Lets that copy text without having to take a screenshot to do it, Win+Shift+T will also be available. pic.twitter.com/zwteelk725February 20, 2025
You can see how it works to extract text (through OCR tech or recognition of optical characters) courtesy of a video of the function in action in the previous publication in X.
To summarize it, the user invokes the Windows 11 cut tool and then choose the ‘text extract’ function, drawing a picture around the screen area from which you want to extract text.
The cut tool then highlights the entire text within the picture and offers an option to copy it on the clipboard, and from there, you can hit a document (or anywhere else).
It is true that Snipping Tool already has an OCR skill, but it only works with a screenshot you have taken. This new approach is a much more simplified and convenient way of working, since you can simply use the function directly in what is currently shown on the monitor screen.
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This gives the cut to tool a lot of flexibility so that it can, as shown in the previous example, eliminate the entire text of a Windows 11 menu (if you wish). It will work for anything on the screen, and as you no longer need to take a screenshot, this makes the OCR function even more convenient as indicated.
This is something that Microsoft has been working for a while, such as Phantomofearth for the first time the tool a few months ago in November 2024. It has been perfected since then, and as the filter says, it is now basically equivalent to the same functionality In the Powerto -Utilities Suite of Microsoft.
With luck, this most skilled OCR for the cutting tool could reach the finished version of Windows 11 in a short time.
Through XDA developers
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