With the launch of MacOS Monterey last fall, Apple introduced a neat feature called Live Text, which lets you highlight and copy text directly from images, both in Safari and in system apps such as ...

If you cannot select or highlight text in a PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader on a Windows PC, then this post will be able to help you resolve the issue. If you can’t select text in a PDF, it might be the ...

Google’s upcoming version of Android OS will improve boot times and application performance considerably, but that is not all it has in store for the user base. As expected from a new OS version, ...

When you set type in Adobe Photoshop as part of an informational graphic, image montage or other project for your business, you may need to create a selection equal in size and shape to the text on ...

Whether you're extracting text or doing a visual search, the Snipping Tool in Windows is a much more versatile and powerful tool than you might think.

Widely used PDF files capture text and images nearly exactly as they display in the application that created them. The format is designed to store text and both bitmapped and vector images, with the ...

With the launch of the new iPad Pro and Smart Keyboard Folio, the built-in iPad text selection tool is again drawing criticism from users. However, there’s one little feature that has largely gone ...

This week saw the publishing of one of the iPhone’s most recognizable patents. Arriving with iOS 3 in June 2009 was the ability to select, copy, and paste text using two draggable selection handles ...

Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac iOS 13 (and iPadOS) fixed the frustrating text-selection tools on the iPhone and iPad, but only if you know how to use them. Selecting a single word or sentence is ...

When you hang around Android long enough, you start to sense a persistent three-step pattern: A promising new system-level feature comes along with a splashy on-stage demo and availability ...