Text Extractor extracts uneditable text from anywhere on the screen
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Hello friends, welcome to videotutorial.ro I'm Cristi and in this tutorial I will introduce you to Text Extractor. This is a mini-application from Microsoft Power Toys that allows us to copy text from anywhere, no matter where the text is, we can copy it. It's much easier than doing for example we want to copy text from images it's much easier with this than taking a screenshot, taking the text we take exactly the text we need, exactly 2-3 lines of text or exactly what we need.
I'll show you right away how it works. To begin with Text Extractor is not activated, but it can be activated in Microsoft Power Toys. If you don't have Microsoft Power Toys, go to the Microsoft Store and install Microsoft Power Toys.
The application is free. Install it and after that it will appear somewhere in three. If it doesn't appear here in the three lower corners, it means that it's been added to all applications in this inserter, so you can take it from here and put it if you want, if you need it to have it more handy.
After that, of course, right-click, settings, we get to the same place and on the right side where it says utilities or we can do it here too, but on the right side it's much simpler. We scroll down until we find the Text Extractor. We activate it and enter it on this arrow.
Here we notice that it's activated because we activated it. We have the Windows, Shift and T key combination. You can change this key combination if you want. Simply press this pencil and change the key combination.
And here the basic language that it uses to recognize characters when you select an area with text. Let me show you how it works if it's normally off like this, we press the Windows, Shift and T key combination, the Snipping Tool will open, but we didn't need the Snipping Tool now, so we activate it and after we activate Windows, Shift and T, the key combination will appear Text Extractor and here you have the text tools. You can select a single line or table if you want.
Let me show you how it works in principle when you are somewhere on a document. Let's say we are on this one. And we want to select only a specific area.
When you use an application, take a screenshot, use a request, it will take your text and you will have to select from them. With this option with Text Extractor we only take the text that we need. And now we will press Windows, Shift and T select the area with the chocolate ice cream text without eggs.
And basically the text has been copied to clipboard. I don't have to do anything else. We open a text document, Ctrl-V paste and as you can see it copied exactly what was there.
There may be small mistakes here and there but you can correct them without any problem. Right-click Spelling and correct or correct them manually. This is a situation where we use Text Extractor but we also have other situations.
For example we are on the web and we want to copy something. For example to copy this text. Very simple.
Windows, Shift and T select the area with the text Wait let me select better once again because I didn't select well. Windows, Shift and T That's it. We open the document again.
Ctrl-V and you see that it only copied us with the rentacar service. It didn't copy everything for us. So sometimes there are still problems.
Why? Because there are things behind the text. See how the vines are here in this field and it recognized us. Let's try to get this logo from here.
Windows, Shift and T select to see what recognizes us. Like that. Ctrl-V and it got us.
Well, Range Rover Rent didn't get us anymore. It thought there was something in the background. So it depends a lot on the contrast.
Basically, text is better taken from a text document than from advertisements. It works that way, but basically look, we can take these from here. These are not text, I can't copy them.
We can take things. Let's take these from below. Yes, I can copy this one.
And I can copy this one. Yes, there are things I can't copy and basically, look, I can't copy this BBC, I could take it and absolutely anything else you see in the images. You might see memes, you might see all kinds of things.
Let's see if it recognizes the text on this shirt. With the National Guard. Let's see.
National Guard. Here. Windows Shift and T. We select English, because the text is in English.
Let's see if it recognizes. It's interesting. We can play with this.
Ctrl V. As you can see, it recognized us somewhat. Not completely. I also put this one here.
But basically it recognized it. It is, I told you, a method by which we can copy text from anywhere, from memes, quotes, from pictures, from absolutely anything. It's much better than taking a screenshot and then extracting it from the image.
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