Windows 11 PowerToys has a neat feature that lets you press a shortcut key, select a section of your screen containing text, and copy it to your clipboard using OCR (Optical Character Recognition). You can then paste that text into Word and edit away. This works with anything, text in images, text in locked PDFs, or any other text you can see, making an editable copy of it.
On Linux, you can get this same functionality with NormCap. It runs in the background and puts an icon in the system tray for you. When you click the icon, the screen gets a pink outline around it, and you simply drag a selection box over the text you want to capture. When you let go of the mouse button, NormCap saves the text from your selection in an editable format to your clipboard. Just paste the text into your favorite text editor and edit away.
It is a Flatpak app, so you will need to have Flatpak set up before installing it. You can get the Flatpak version here: https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.dynobo.normcap. You can read more about NormCap on its GitHub page here: https://dynobo.github.io/normcap/. You can also get installation packages for other operating systems or Linux distributions there.
