Users have more than one tool and program to extract texts from images through a technology known as OCR, as there is a wide range of programs available for this purpose, and most of them are completely free. But if you want to extract text from an image on a computer running the latest versions of Windows 10 operating system,
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| How to extract text from images without software on Windows 10 |
you may not need to install third-party programs as users can take advantage of the new Search with screenshot feature to extract text from images with ease, thus if you find an image in a PDF or Word document It contains English text and you want to extract it for translation or for any purpose instead of manually rewriting the text, here you will find the built-in feature in Windows 10 useful. The following is a review of how to use it.
How to extract text from images for Windows 10
Initially, the "Search with screenshot" feature first appeared in Windows 10 over the past year as part of the improvements that Microsoft made to the search bar integrated with the Start menu. At the time the feature was available to users in the United States, and as of this writing, the feature is still limited to a limited number of Windows 10 users. This is the reason why it was not discovered after downloading and installing the May 2020 update. However, you can try the feature and use it with ease by Change the "region" settings in Windows 10 and then use it to extract text from images. Let me tell you how ...
Open the Settings app either through the Start menu or by clicking Win + i (e) on the keyboard at the same time. Next, head over to the Time & Language section, and then to the Region page from the side menu. Now click on the Country or region menu and select United States instead of whatever country you are currently residing in. This change will allow Windows 10 users in the United States to have access to many features that were designated or tested by Microsoft only, including, of course, the Search with screenshot feature to extract text from images.
Now, to use the new "Search with screenshot" feature, all you need to do is open the search window by clicking on the Win key + the letter S (S) on the keyboard simultaneously, or just click on the "lens" icon next to the Start menu in Lower left corner on the taskbar. Then, in the lower right corner, you will find a new icon called Search with a screenshot, so click on it.
The default Snip & Sketch tool will then be launched in Windows 10 to take a screenshot, but its purpose here is to define the area where the text you want to extract is located, so the screenshot is taken and processed automatically by Microsoft's Bing Visual Search service. It does not matter if the text is written on an image with an unclear font, or within an uneditable Word or PDF document, just focus on determining the part of the text, regardless of its length.
You will then open the Microsoft Edge browser, even if it is not the default browser, and go to the Bing Visual Search service where the image in which the text appears is processed. Within a few seconds, the text embedded in the image will appear as normal text and can be copied easily after going to the "Tt Text" section and clicking on Copy text.
Thus, you will not need to install external programs on Windows 10 to extract texts from images. As we have seen, the Search with screenshot feature gets the job done in just a few clicks.
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