Copy Text From Pictures with Your iPhone in Seconds!

So I want to show you one of the coolest features for your iPhone if you've upgraded to iOS 15

It's called Live Text and it will let you pull text off any photo

So let's get started. Here's an example of a situation that you might have

Someone handed you a hard copy of a document without a digital copy

So now you have to go in and edit that. So what you can do with Live Text is take your camera out, kind of hover your camera

somewhere where it's pointing to the text, and you'll notice that in the bottom right-hand

side you'll see the Live Text icon pop up. So you'll want to position your camera where you can see this yellow box around the text

That means that your iPhone camera is able to pick it up. And what you'll want to do is to take a photo of that

There we go. So I just took a photo and now you'll notice that it's giving me a separate view of just

the text and the Live Text icon will be highlighted. So from here I can highlight and copy the text and I can open a Google Drive document

And now I can paste the text directly inside this Google Drive document so I can go through

and edit this the way that I normally could if I had a digital version

So it's a great way to take a paper version and immediately transfer it into text

Now it's more than just text. You can see here is a book

It is Martin Luther King Day. And Live Type will be able to see the title of this book and recognize that as text characters

And again, I can follow the same process of taking a photo and copying and pasting the

text even though the fonts, the lettering isn't similar to how you would typically see

the text on a document. It's a very powerful tool. And you'll also notice that sometimes when I paste it, it's not exactly 100% correct

But what it does really well again is being able to find just plain text

So let's say that there's a page inside this book and all I'd have to do again, point my

camera at the text to where the yellow bars are around there

I can then just highlight whatever text I want. Maybe I just want this one sentence

Or I want the whole thing. It doesn't really matter. I can copy that, open up the notes on my phone, and paste it inside

Now you don't have to take a picture of something in order to use live text

Here's an example of a text message that someone sent me with a screenshot to a website

So I can then tap on the screenshot. And using live text, I can press on the text, select it, and copy and paste it into a different program

So again, that's live text that's available on any iOS device, meaning an iPad or iPhone

that has iOS 15 or greater installed. So thank you for watching this video on how to use live text to extract text

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