Cellphone Hyperlink (referred to as Hyperlink to Home windows on the cellphone aspect) enables you to sync calls, messages, notifications, and pictures — and solid your whole cellphone — out of your Android cellphone to your Home windows laptop. It additionally works in a extra restricted style with iOS units, which solely sync notifications, messages, and calls over Bluetooth.
The Home windows Snipping Instrument received textual content extraction final 12 months across the identical time Cellphone Hyperlink received picture share notifications, so it’s been attainable for a bit to extract textual content from cellphone images with the Snipping Instrument. This replace simply saves you a step and allows you to do it in-app. The characteristic is reside in Cellphone Hyperlink 1.24051.91.0 and I gave it a fast take a look at in Insider Preview Construct 22635.3646 (Beta Channel).
In my testing, the OCR was first rate, although it made extra errors than both Samsung or Apple’s textual content extractors with the identical picture of a e book web page. For longer passages you’re most likely higher off enabling cross-device copy and paste, extracting the textual content in your cellphone, and sending it to your PC that means.