Google Lens in Chrome can help you copy text, read handwriting, translate text, and pull useful details from images, screenshots, and visible document pages without typing everything out manually.
Why It Works
Instead of retyping information from a screenshot, product label, scanned document, image, or visible PDF page, Google Lens can analyse what is shown on screen and make the text easier to copy, search, or translate.
This can save time for office staff, finance teams, support teams, sales staff, and business owners who regularly work with screenshots, scanned paperwork, supplier documents, product photos, invoices, delivery notes, or customer emails and need to quickly copy information without retyping it manually
How To Use It
– Open Google Chrome on your computer.
– Find the image, screenshot, web page, or visible document page you want to check.
– Right-click on the image and choose “Search image with Google Lens”.
– If you are not right-clicking directly on an image, right-click on the page and choose “Search with Google Lens”, then drag over the area you want Google Lens to analyse.
– When the Google Lens panel opens, look for options such as Search, Text, or Translate.
– Use Text to select and copy words, numbers, paragraphs, codes, or references from the image.
– Use Translate to translate visible text into another language.
– Paste the copied text into an email, document, spreadsheet, ticket, CRM note, or wherever you need it.
This is especially useful when working with screenshots, scanned information, product photos, foreign-language documents, or PDF pages viewed in Chrome (although it shouldn’t be treated as a full replacement for a dedicated PDF or OCR tool).