Need to quickly forward a link, directions, or other info to friends? Here's how to copy and paste a text message on Android.

Selecting and copying text from an image, no matter what device you have, is easy to do with the help of built-in tools and extra add-ons.

Text Lens is a Mac app by Sindre Sorhus. It lets you select text that you otherwise cannot copy, such as text from PDFs, images, videos, and more.

Open any image containing text in the web app, and you should see a Copy text from image link appear at the top.

Learn how to copy all text as a table from a screenshot in the Snipping Tool. You can use the Copy as table option to generate structured table data.

Live Text picks up a new trick in iOS 16, letting you grab text from a video. Here's how you copy text from a video in iOS 16 — and why you'd want to.

Live Text lets you quickly copy, translate, and look up text from photos on macOS Monterey.

You can copy text from anything around you with the iPhone's camera - here's how easy it is to use the Live Text feature.

Easily copy and paste text between your Android phone and Mac using KDE Connect and Soduto, with seamless clipboard sync over the same Wi-Fi network.

Apple’s iOS 15.4 update launched in March 2022. If you haven’t been copying text from images to make Notes in your iPhone, you need to check out this time-saving hack.