Here's how to make it work. How many times have you found an old company PDF or image, and needed to gain quick access to the text within, only to find you cannot locate the editable version of ...

This typically happens when a PDF was created by scanning a paper document—it's just a series of images ... meaning you'll be able to search the text. Even better, it's completely free.

Google Lens can scan whatever you’re looking at and find similar images, recognize items, and more. If there’s text in the image, you’ll be able to select and copy it, or translate it to ...