How to capture text from a video on your Android phone
One of the cool new features in iOS 16, the latest version of Apple’s OS, is called Live Text, which allows you to quickly capture and use text from both a still photo and, now, a video as well. While Android doesn’t (yet) capture text directly from video, it does capture text from still photos using the handy Google Lens app — and with a little bit of maneuvering, you can use Lens to capture text from a video as well. It may not be quite as quick as Live Text, but it’s mostly painless and works just as well.
Here’s what to do.
- Create your video on your Android phone.
- Go to the Photos app and start the video.
- Pause the video at the point where you want to copy the text.
- Near the bottom of the video, you’ll see a button labeled Get...