Copying text from photo

To turn on Live Text for all supported languages, go to Settings > General > Language & Region, and enable Live Text.

Live Text is currently supported in English, Chinese, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. You need an iPhone XS, iPhone XR, or later with iOS 15 to use Live Text.

Copy text within a photo or image

1. Go to the Photos app and select a photo, or select an image online.
2. Touch and hold a word and move the grab points to adjust the selection.
3. Tap Copy. To select all the text in the photo, tap Select All.

After you copy text, you can paste it in another app or share it with someone. To highlight all text within a photo or image, select a photo or image, then tap the indicator icon  in the lower-right corner of the photo.

Copy text from a photo

• Take a photo with text you want to copy into a document. For this example, we’re using a recipe from a cookbook.
• Go into the Photos app and select the photo with text you want to copy. This feature also works from the camera roll, inside the camera app.
• Press down on the text you want to copy with your finger, the same way you would in an Apple Note or text message. Two text selector dots should appear on the photo.
• Stretch the text selection cursors to cover all the text you want to copy. Press “copy.”
• Go into the word processor of your choice, tap on the text field, and paste

Take a photo of text and put it directly into the Notes app

• The new feature also works directly in a word processor like the Notes app.
• Tap on the screen and pick the icon in the pop-up that looks like three lines of text in a square box. That’s the Live Text icon.
• It will bring a camera window up on the bottom half of the screen. Point it at text and the software will automatically recognize it.
• Apple’s software will highlight the text it wants to insert into the app inside the photo window.
• Press the blue “Insert” button when the software has selected the right chunk of text.

Scan text directly from the iPhone camera

• You can also scan text directly from the iPhone’s Camera app.
• Point the camera at words and if the software recognizes text, it will display the three-lines-of-text icon in the bottom right of the viewfinder, or top-right in landscape.
• Press the button. It will turn yellow and bring up a window dedicated to the text in the photo.
• You can select this text and copy-paste it into any document.

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