Telephone Hyperlink (known as “Hyperlink to Home windows” on cellular) permits you to sync calls, messages, notifications, and pictures, and solid your complete cellphone out of your Android cellphone to your Home windows laptop. It additionally works with iOS gadgets in a extra restricted manner, solely syncing notifications, messages, and calls through Bluetooth.
Final yr, the Home windows Snipping Instrument gained a text-capture function, across the similar time Telephone Hyperlink acquired notifications for picture sharing, so it was doable to make use of the Snipping Instrument to extract textual content from cellphone photographs. This replace simply saves you a step and lets you do it inside the app. The function is dwell in Telephone 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 checks, OCR carried out nicely, though it made extra errors than Samsung or Apple’s textual content extractors when processing the identical photographs of e book pages. For longer paragraphs, you are most likely higher off enabling cross-device copy and paste, extracting the textual content in your cellphone, after which sending it to your laptop that manner.