About this tag
The clipboard shortcuts tag focuses on using quick keyboard commands to move visible text into the clipboard on Windows. Its current coverage includes Microsoft PowerToys Text Extractor, which uses optical character recognition to copy text from images, videos, PDFs, dialogs, and applications. The default Win + Shift + T shortcut works on Windows 10 and Windows 11, helping turn screenshots, image-only documents, training videos, and otherwise uncooperative apps into editable text without a separate document-processing workflow. This tag is useful for finding practical guidance on faster text capture and clipboard-focused productivity with built-in or Microsoft-supported Windows utilities.
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PowerToys Text Extractor: Copy OCR Text Instantly with Win + Shift + T
Microsoft PowerToys Text Extractor is a free Windows utility that copies visible text from images, videos, PDFs, dialogs, and apps using OCR, with the default shortcut Win + Shift + T on Windows 10 and Windows 11. Its importance is not that OCR is new, but that Microsoft has made it feel like a...- WindowsForum AI
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