There are plenty of reasons why you might want to pull the text out of an image you find online: instructions on a YouTube still, for example, or items on a printed menu, or inspirational quotes ...

Use Google to Translate Text in Any Image From screenshots to personal photos, Google can translate it for you.

Extract text from image on Android using Google Lens, Microsoft Lens, Google Photos, Adobe Scan, and more with these easy-to-use OCR tools.

Selecting and copying text from an image, no matter what device you have, is easy to do with the help of built-in tools and extra add-ons.

How do text-to-image AI models work? An earlier iteration of AI-generated images relied on generative adversarial networks (GANs).