Like many other apps, Microsoft is updating and streamlining Windows' own screenshot app, Snipping Tool, with a few new capabilities. "Text Action," a new OCR feature, now lets you interact with any text in an image, extracting and copying that text, and redacting sensitive information to keep it with you.

Here's everything you need to know about copying and editing text in images using the Snipping Tool.

The Text Action feature in the Snipping Tool can find and highlight selectable text in images and screenshots taken with it. The text can later be copied to the clipboard or, depending on the nature of the text, redacted to preserve privacy before saving.

There’s a Quick Redact button to automatically hide emails and phone numbers if they appear in the image, which can speed up working with digital documents, web content, and images with sensitive data. Both text actions appear to simplify interaction with text in images and with what you see on the screen.