Once you've captured a snip, select the Text actions button to activate the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature. This allows you to extract text directly from your image. From here, you have the option to either select and copy specific text or use the tools to Copy all text or to Quick redact any email addresses or phone numbers in the snip. All text recognition processes are performed locally on your device., Learn how to use Snipping Tool to capture a screenshot, or snip, of any object on your screen, and then annotate, save, or share the image., Select the notification to open the image in the Snipping Tool editor. Edit the image as needed with the ink pen, highlighter, eraser, ruler, and cropping tool..