What’s new in Snipping Tool: OCR, black wash, and screencasts

Step 1: Text extractor

Update 23H2 for Windows 11 adds a new OCR (Optical Text Recognition) engine to the default screen capture software. For example, when you open a web page and click Windows key + Shift + S To open the Snipping Tool, you’ll still use the button new To take a picture of the entire screen, the active window, or a specific area on the screen. When the result is displayed in the program, a new button will appear: Text actions. Clicking this will start the system’s text recognition and the Snipping Tool will select all of the text. There is a new button at the top: Copy all the text. Use this to copy selected text, so you can, for example, place it in a file Word processor can be pasted.

Step 2: Editing

But there’s more… At the top you’ll also find the functionality Quick editing. To use this feature, you must first set two conditions. You can do this by clicking on the arrow behind this button. You have the choice Email addresses And phone numbers. Place a check mark next to the information that the Snipping Tool should automatically include in the screenshot Hide If you press the button immediately Quick editing Clicks. This prevents the program from sending sensitive data when you share this text or screenshot.

Step 3: Audio Videos

Moreover, it is now possible to record a video of everything that happens on the screen while also recording your voice. The application also allows you to change the default settings of these audio recordings. If you have multiple recording devices, you can select the device you want to use before you start recording. Choose what you want to record: the entire screen or just a specific area. You can track the recording time at the counter. If you right click on System sound button Click, it is possible to mute the system sound. Additionally, the trimmer has been given a button to edit the result, an MP4 file, in Clipchamp, Microsoft’s online video editor.

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