How to seize textual content from a video in your Android telephone

One of the cool new options in iOS 16, the newest model of Apple’s OS, known as Live Text, which lets you shortly seize and use textual content from each a nonetheless picture and, now, a video as effectively. While Android doesn’t (but) seize textual content straight from video, it does seize textual content from nonetheless images utilizing the helpful Google Lens app — and with a bit little bit of maneuvering, you need to use Lens to seize textual content from a video as effectively. It might not be fairly as fast as Live Text, however it’s principally painless and works simply as effectively.

Here’s what to do.

• Create your video in your Android telephone.
• Go to the Photos app and begin the video.
• Pause the video on the level the place you need to copy the textual content.
• Near the underside of the video, you’ll see a button labeled Get images from this video. Tap on it.

• At the underside of the display screen, you’ll now see a group of stills from the video. If you resolve you’re not on the body you need, you possibly can transfer the indicator (the vertical line) you see on the stills assortment till you get to the body you need to export. When you’re prepared, click on the Export body button simply above the sequence of stills.
• A pop-up will let you know that your nonetheless has been exported to the Camera folder. You can faucet on the pop-up to view the picture or return to the Camera folder within the Photos app and discover it there.
• Either method, when you’re wanting on the nonetheless out of your video, you must see a Copy textual content button close to the underside of the display screen. Tap that, and Lens will select the most certainly textual content within the picture and invite you to repeat it, search on it, take heed to it being narrated, or translate it. If Lens didn’t select the proper textual content, use your finger to focus on the textual content you need.

• If the Copy textual content button didn’t present up, simply faucet on the Lens app on the backside of the display screen and choose Text (additionally on the backside of the display screen). You can then both select the Select all button (which can choose up all of the textual content on the display screen) or spotlight the textual content within the picture you need. You can then copy, search, take heed to, or translate it, simply the identical as should you tapped the Copy textual content button.