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The Windows 11 Snipping Tool now has a visual search engine.
You can learn more about the item you capture via a Bing search.
You can also extract or translate text and even solve a math equation.
The Snipping Tool in Windows 11 provides a handy way to capture screenshots of text, images, and other items that appear on your screen. But sometimes you might want to learn more about the item you've captured. For that, the tool now offers a visual search engine that uses Bing to dig up information on the content in your screenshot.
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Available with the latest version of the Snipping Tool, the visual search feature taps into Microsoft's "Visual Search with Bing," as described and tested by Windows Latest. By running this type of search on text, an image, or other content, you can discover more about it, translate visible text into another language, extract text via OCR to copy and paste it, and even solve a mathematical equation.
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