When Windows 11 was first released, many power users were disappointed with the lack of tools that the operating system offered. Microsoft developed PowerToys long ago with the same caveat in mind, as it offers much more powerful tools to perform various tasks on your PC. Over the years, many features and tools have been added to PowerToys and the latest addition is Text Extractor. This new powerful tool allows you to copy text from anywhere on your screen, be it a blog post, an image, a website or even an application. So if you have ever typed text that you cannot copy, then Text Extractor is the perfect tool for you. Let’s take a quick look at it and how you can use it on your PC.

Text Extractor is a new tool in PowerToys that can copy text from anywhere on your screen. Text Extractor uses OCR to identify text from the selected area and then converts it into identifiable characters that can be used on your PC. Once you activate Text Extractor, you can choose an area on your screen from which you want to extract the text. When you click and drag to select the area, the text is automatically identified and copied to your clipboard. You can then paste the text wherever you want, depending on your preferences.

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Now that you are familiar with Text Extractor in PowerToys, here is how you can use it on your PC. You will first need to install the relevant OCR language pack for your PC. Once you have done that, you can install PowerToys and use Text Extractor as needed.