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How to copy text from videos in macOS Ventura
Live Text is just another in a long line of AI tools that make our lives easier—or perhaps more complicated. Let’s see how to copy text from videos on Mac.
Have you ever needed to copy text from a video?
Maybe you want to translate a written language you don’t understand. Or perhaps you accidentally recorded an important document instead of snapping a picture. These things happen. Whatever your reason, Live Text can help.
Apple introduced Live Text for images in macOS Monterey. However, with the release of Ventura (and iOS 16), we also have the ability to copy text from videos.
Live Text is just another in a long line of AI tools that make our lives easier—or perhaps more complicated. Either way, let’s discuss how to copy text from videos on Mac.
Copy text from videos on Mac
Here’s how to copy text from videos in macOS Ventura using Live Text:
Live Text is a feature in macOS Monterey and later versions that allows you to easily copy text directly from images or videos in real time. Here’s how to copy text from a video to a Mac.
Total Time: 5 minutes
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Power up your Mac
Open the relevant video in either Photos or QuickTime
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Find your text
Locate the text you want to copy and pause the video on the correct frame
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Keep an eye out for the Live Text button
Find and click the Live Text button in the bottom right corner
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Copy and paste
Select the text you want to copy and either press Command + C or Control-click the text and choose Copy. Alternatively, click Copy All in the bottom left corner
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Results may vary
Paste the text into the desired location using Command + V or Control-click the appropriate area and select Paste (results may vary)
If some letters or words are cut off or unclear in the video, the results may be inaccurate. Therefore, it’s important to ensure that you stop the video at the frame that best displays the text you want to copy.
You can also translate text by Control-clicking the selected words and choosing Translate, which is probably the most useful application of the Live Text feature.
Is Live Text for videos useful?
Nowadays, AI seems to be solving all of our problems, including those we never knew we had, such as the inability to copy text from videos.
With Apple’s Live Text feature, we now have not only the ability to copy and paste text but translate it as well.
So, is Live Text useful?
If you’re constantly needing to extract or translate text from videos, then Live Text is a useful feature. However, the most exciting thing about the technology is seeing where it goes next.
Have any thoughts on this? Drop us a line below in the comments, or carry the discussion to our Twitter or Facebook.
Editors’ Recommendations:
- A wild new Google Photos update lets desktop users copy text directly from an image
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- Google Lens lets you copy real world text and paste it to your computer – here’s how to do it
- New TikTok feature allows you to translate captions and text stickers
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