Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. There are many ways to copy text that can't be ...

When an app says “you can’t copy this,” this tool politely disagrees.

Microsoft's Snipping Tool on Windows 11 is a handy way to capture specific screenshots on your PC, and it's now getting an upgrade to make copying text from images way easier. In a blog post published ...

Picture this: You pull up Youtube on your Mac computer, watch a tutorial or an important talk, and, suddenly, some text appears onscreen. You hit pause because you want to take notes. You open up a ...

Microsoft is adding a new feature to Windows 11’s Snipping Tool: text extraction. This tool, which has been quite popular in PowerToys, is now being integrated directly into Windows 11’s built-in ...

One of my favorite iPhone tricks, which I use all the time, is called Live Text. Apple introduced the feature in iOS 15, and it's available on iPhones as old as the iPhone XR/XS series. The name is ...