Retrieve in seconds the text displayed on an image to copy and paste it into a document and edit it.
Extracting the text displayed on a sign, a photo or even a screenshot is much easier than you might imagine. Using the camera of your iPhone or your Android smartphone, and an application offering an optical character recognition function, you can very easily retrieve the text contained in any image. You will not need to search very long for an application capable of performing such an operation.
The Google application, which includes Google Lens, offers this functionality. If users have to download it on the iPhone, Android users will not have to download anything, the application being installed natively. Find out how to extract text from an image using your smartphone.
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1. Download the Google app
If you have an Android smartphone, you can skip to the next step. If you have an iPhone, however, download and install the Google app on your device if you haven’t already. Google’s application includes Google Lens, an image recognition function developed by the search engine capable of identifying objects, but also of recognizing text to extract it from an image.
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2. Start a scan with Google Lens
Open the Google app on your device, and from the main app page, tap the Google Lens icon displayed in the search box.
Your smartphone camera opens. Two options are then possible. You can either navigate through your smartphone’s camera roll to select an image and submit it to Google Lens, or directly capture a photo of an object near you by pressing the magnifying glass button.
3. Extract text from image
In principle, Google Lens automatically detects when text has been found in an image. Then press the Select All button to select all of the text, or use your finger to get a fine-tuned selection of the text to extract, as you usually do to select text in a message, email, etc.
Once your text is selected, press the Copy Text button.
4. Paste the text
Then open any application that allows you to edit text and simply paste the contents of your smartphone’s clipboard.
You can now take full advantage of the text that was displayed on the image or object submitted to Google Lens and use it however you want.