How To Copy/Extract Text From Picture/Scanned Image File With Your Android Phone In Just 5 Seconds

Have you ever thought of copying out text from a picture or scanned image file? If you have ever thought of that, we can equally assure you that you are not alone on that, as some other people have also bore such though, on how they could easily copy out the text on image files.

Maybe you came across scanned image document that you will need to copy out the text and you have already started thinking of the awkward and time consuming way of typing out the entire text on your word document, but hey! Hold on a little and listen because we are in high-tech era and who does that tedious typing again, when you can easily copy and save the text content of that image file in a twinkle of an eye?

Though there are some other methods out there that you can use to achieve that and we believe that those methods are quite cumbersome because they mostly require you use a  converter to convert the JPEG image file to either word or pdf document before copying out the text.

But in the method that we are going to be discussing here, you will not need any converter and you will be doing it with your android phone in a hassle free and timeless manner.

Without further ado, to easily copy out a text from picture or image scanned file with your android device, follow the simple step below;

•  With your android device head to Google Play store and download Google photos

•  Scan the document that you want to copy out the text from or you can even use your phone camera to take a clear picture of the document

•  Launch your Google photo app that you downloaded

•  Use it to locate/open the picture or scanned image on your phone that you want to copy out the text

•  You will see the Google lens icon situated at the bottom just next to the delete icon, so click on the icon and wait for some seconds for the magic to be done

•  After few seconds it will bring up the Google lens preview and text selection icon, now click on the text selection icon and you will see the copied text from the image below on white background

•  You can now easily tap and hold on text area to select and copy the text and finally paste and save it wherever you desire.

Hurray! You have just succeeded in copying out the text from your picture or scanned image file within a twinkle of the eyes.