Microsoft says OCR support will be expanded to images from your older notes “in the coming months.” Handwriting is still not available on smartphones, but that feature is also on its way ...

Spotted by Windows Latest, the OCR feature of Microsoft Photos can be activated by making a change in the Windows Registry using Regedit (the built-in Registry Editor tool): Launch Registry Editor ...

While the Snipping Tool came with an OCR component, the pre-requisite was that users had to first grab a screenshot before attempting to extract the text. Now, the same can be done without taking ...

Using the OCR feature is pretty simple: just tap the icon below an image to extract text. Microsoft designed the tool to make tasks like managing information in images easier and improve productivity.

Screenshots and OCR data were stored in plaintext, where it could be accessed by any app with user system rights. It provided few granular tools to limit the type of content that was sucked into ...