Phone Link OCR Feature: Copy Text from Android Photos
You can cast and connect your Android smartphone to a Windows computer with Phone Link OCR Feature, a Microsoft app. Additionally, a recent upgrade will improve integration even further by enabling you to use optical character recognition (OCR) on your PC to directly extract text from Android photo files.
You may link Android 14 devices—select manufacturers only, including Samsung, Honor, OnePlus, Realme, Oppo, and others—to Phone Link, also known as Link to Windows on the phone side, and access their apps on your PC.
You may now immediately paste text from an image in your gallery onto your Windows 11 phone by using OCR.
The pre-installed Snipping Tool previously included the text extraction feature, so it is not a new feature on Windows 11. The new method just eliminates a step and lets you use the text from any photographed object, be it a street sign, book page, or other.
Later in the year, the feature should be accessible to all users of Insider Preview Build 22635.3646 (Beta Channel).
