In late October 2024, Microsoft announced a big update for the Photos app for Windows 11 with two new major features: Super Resolution and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). After a month of testing ...

Microsoft has disabled the OCR functionality in its updated Photos app to "address some issues."… A Windows Insider preview ...

Microsoft is experimenting with different ways of bringing AI capabilities to Windows. Such experiments include bringing OCR to apps like Snipping Tool, Camera, and Photos. Microsoft is also toying ...

A new feature in Phone Link will let you select text in photos synced from your Android phone, but it’s probably not as good as your phone’s built-in OCR. A new feature in Phone Link will let you ...

Microsoft is making it easier to extract texts from on-screen content without having to take a screenshot of the same first, X user PhantomOfEarth reported. This is going to be possible using the same ...

In the following sections, we will show you how to enable or disable ‘auto-scan images for text’ in the Microsoft Photos app. However, before that, please note that the update is currently released ...