In the realm of technology, the ability to extract or copy text from images is a powerful tool. This capability, made possible through Optical Character Recognition (OCR), is now within your grasp ...

Capture2Text is a free software for Windows that lets you extract & copy text from images & save it to the Clipboard. Quickly OCR a portion of computer screen & copy it to the clipboard.

Free-OCR can handle images with multi-column text and also supports 29 languages. One odd restriction is that it takes only the first page of a PDF document while performing OCR.

In context: Apple introduced Live Text with the release of iOS 15 and macOS Monterey. It allows users to copy text from any image and paste it into a document or message.