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Windows 11's Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad Apps Are About to Get New Features

Paint: .paint "Save as project" and an opacity slider for Pencil/Brush—layered edits and smoother blending. Snipping Tool: Quick markup (Ctrl+E) adds inline toolbar for pen, highlighter, shapes, ...
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How to use OCR in Windows 11 Snipping Tool

Have you run into situations where you need to grab text from a screenshot or image you downloaded? Doing so used to take some work, but Microsoft is making it easier using built-in utilities. For ...
PC World

Windows 11’s Snipping Tool gets smart about copying table data

Microsoft’s Snipping Tool has become progressively more useful, with the ability to make screen recordings as well as screenshots. Today Microsoft begins testing a new addition: the ability to copy ...
Windows Central

Using 'one of Windows 11's few truly useful AI features' is about to get easier

Windows 11's Snipping Tool is one step closer to getting a nice upgrade. Support for text extraction through the capture bar in Snipping Tool is now in testing among Windows Insiders in the Dev and ...
ExtremeTech

Windows 11 Gets Built-in Text Extraction, Copying From Screen via Snipping Tool

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 ...
PC World

Windows 11’s Snipping Tool tests instant on-screen text extraction feature

According to yesterday’s Windows Insider blog post, Microsoft is currently testing a new version of the Snipping Tool in Windows 11, which is now available to Windows Insiders on both Canary and Dev ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows Snipping Tool now lets you create animated GIF recordings

Microsoft announced that the Windows screenshot and screencast Snipping Tool utility is getting support for exporting animated GIF recordings. This new capability is rolling out to Windows 11 Insiders ...