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I’m assuming that he means that on (for example) Mac you can select text from any image and copy paste it. https://uk.pcmag.com/macos/138058/not-just-iphone-ho

• olliej 3y ago
  100% correct, I assumed windows also let people do that given text recognition is apparently trivial now (to the extent it's annoying - trying to drag images and get text selection instead is annoying :-/)
  • serf 3y ago
    Windows has gone sort of the opposite way, copy/paste is now often hindered if the engine recognizes the string to be sensitive or otherwise un-wise to copy to your clipboard. I've had a few instances on Windows 11 and surrounding software where ctrl-C as well as the context menu entry for 'Copy' were greyed out for this reason when skimming through logfiles, presumably because there was something about the line that triggered the MS "that's a password!" regex; stuuuupid stuff.
  • reddalo 3y ago
    I think Windows now does it as well, but of course (as all things Windows) it works only in very few apps (forget Win32 ones, for example).