Microsoft has quietly folded a Google Lens–style capability into the Windows 11 Snipping Tool, letting you take a screenshot and immediately run a visual search in Bing to identify objects, extract or translate text, and even solve math problems — all from the familiar capture workflow...
Microsoft has quietly turned a routine screenshot into a one‑click visual lookup by adding Bing Visual Search to the Windows 11 Snipping Tool, folding a Lens‑style “circle to search” capability into the OS’s native capture workflow.
Background / Overview
The Snipping Tool began life as a basic...
Microsoft has quietly added a built‑in, Google Lens‑style visual search to Windows 11’s Snipping Tool — a Bing‑powered “Visual Search” option accessible from the Win + Shift + S capture bar — bringing visual queries, OCR and translation into the same workflow users already rely on for...