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Cool, I know there's a little Windows Power Toy for doing something similar:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/text-ext...

But the built-in functionality for iOS has the best quality OCR of anything I've seem (much better than the Windows tool), and I constantly find myself screenshotting my phone screen and using that to extract the text. My project is really for longer scanned documents like old books and articles.




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