With Project Naptha, selecting text in images is as easy as highlighting words in, well, Word, and a simple right-click brings up the extension’s options.

Kwok gives a number of example sources with which Project Naptha can be used, including scans, photos containing text, diagrams with labels, screenshots and images with text overlays.

Now a new image-to-text feature in Chrome on ChromeOS will help screen readers work with PDFs, even when images lack alt-text descriptions.

Google’s web-based document editor can now convert the text inside your PDFs and images into text you can edit. When you upload a file to Google Docs, you’ll see the option to “Convert text ...