The smartest ways to sync your Android and computer clipboards – Computerworld

Once you’ve got whatever you’re seeing into Lens, you can then press and hold any text within the image there to select it.

Then, tap the three-dot menu icon within the text selection menu that appears — and hey, how ’bout that? Tucked away there, where no reasonably sane person would ever think to look, is a handy little command called “Copy to computer.”

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Tap that bad boy and tap it good, and you’ll be able to choose from any computer where you’re currently signed into Chrome with the same Google account — Windows, Chromebook, Mac, Linux, you name it — and after that, the text from that image will be on your computer’s clipboard and ready to paste wherever.