Cellphone Hyperlink (referred to as Hyperlink to Home windows on the telephone aspect) allows you to sync calls, messages, notifications, and pictures — and solid your total telephone — out of your Android telephone to your Home windows pc. It additionally works in a extra restricted style with iOS gadgets, which solely sync notifications, messages, and calls over Bluetooth.
The Home windows Snipping Software bought textual content extraction final 12 months across the similar time Cellphone Hyperlink bought picture share notifications, so it’s been doable for a bit to extract textual content from telephone images with the Snipping Software. This replace simply saves you a step and allows you to do it in-app. The characteristic is dwell in Cellphone Hyperlink 1.24051.91.0 and I gave it a fast take a look at in Insider Preview Construct 22635.3646 (Beta Channel).
In my testing, the OCR was first rate, although it made extra errors than both Samsung or Apple’s textual content extractors with the identical photograph of a e book web page. For longer passages you’re most likely higher off enabling cross-device copy and paste, extracting the textual content in your telephone, and sending it to your PC that manner.