There are few tasks that I do as many times on my devices as copying and pasting. And the legendary Control + C and Control + V have been adapted (in functionality, if not in form) for mobile phones and tablets to keep at hand and disseminate the information that interests us… but this is not always a simple process. duty. Moreover, there are times when a task becomes so impossible that you end up taking a screenshot. Okay then, There is an old app that is not missing on my Android mobile because it solves this task in one go and the best part is that it is free.

Copy text from wherever you want

Copying and pasting is a task that almost everyone has internalizedbut there are apps that don’t support it, there are websites that have copy protection, and then there is the impossibility of extracting text from an image by himself. All this solved with Universal Copy

When I downloaded the free app from Google Play and installed it on my Android phone, the first thing it asked was: Enable accessibility permissionsIt is an indispensable requirement for it to fulfill its mission. However, in addition to being a necessary technical requirement, the application has been in the Google application store for many years, has a very good rating and has been downloaded over five million times. Likewise, we will need to allow notifications to be able to call it.

Once we open and activate the application, we will continue to use the phone normally until we no longer need to copy something and the default mode does not work. At that moment we will launch universal copy mode only from notification bar (if we have allowed notifications), because it will appear permanently or with direct access.

AND the magic happens: the app detects the text on the entire screen and extracts it so we can copy it or editing may not be very impressive with text on a website, but is amazing when done with an image thanks to browser mode. Then we will need to choose which part we want it to copy only out of all the elements it differentiates. It doesn’t follow the format in debt but it recognizes the text quite well.

I keep it as a backup in my daily life to copy and paste when something resists me or for images, and it works on apps and sites like Facebook, , but I use All of the above without any problems, although in return you need to view ads and that the first icon to select, copy or edit in the menu is ‘Delete ads’.

Universal Copy

Copy and paste from wherever you want

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