Copy Scanned Text and Send it in an SMS on Microsoft Lumia 535

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Hello and welcome to VisiHow. In this video, we're going to show you how to copy scanned text and send it in a message when using the Microsoft Lumia 535.

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    To start, turn the phone on by pressing the power button, which is located on the right-hand side of the phone
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    Once activated, swipe the lock screen up to enter the home screen
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    We now need to scan some text in order to show you how to copy it and paste it into a message
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    To do that, we need to use Lumia Camera
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    This application and this tile may exist on your home screen.
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    If not, you can find it by swiping left and entering the app menu
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    Find it and press the tile to enter it
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    Once loaded, we need to press the menu button, which is the three dots on the bottom right-hand corner of the screen
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    Once pressed, a menu will pop up and you will then select "lenses"
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    Now we need to use Big Vision so press the Big Vision tile
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    The camera is now activated
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    It is trying to scan for Quick Response, which is also known as QR codes.
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    When we place text in front of it, the scan text button will become active and we will be able to scan some text
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    Here we have some text
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    The scan text button has become activated now and we can press it.
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    The camera recognized that text has appeared and has prepared to scan it in order to copy it
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    As you can see, a selection of white rectangles has encased every word in the text.
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    What we want to do is copy this to the phone
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    To do that, press the menu button again.
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    You will see the "copy all" option
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    Press that option.
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    All of the selected text has now been copied
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    If we want to return to the home screen, which we do, we press the home screen button at the bottom.
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    Now we need to send this text in a message
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    So press the message tile.
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    Yours may be located in a different position than mine
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    Find it and press it to enter the message application.
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    We want to send a new message
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    So we are going to press the "+" sign at the bottom of the screen.
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    If we want to reply to a message, we could also maybe find it in one of our previous messages as well, but we need to create a new message
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    Here we have the recipients at the top and at the bottom we have the area in which we can place the text.
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    What we want to do now is paste the text that we have copied
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    When there is something to paste, the paste icon appears. You can see it here under the text box. It is the icon that looks like a clipboard with the white file.
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    If we press this we are going to paste the last thing we copied
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    So press that. Now we can see we have pasted all the text we scanned into the text box.
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    This is a very useful function/application/tool that allows us to copy text very quickly using the Big Vision application, and then send it to our friend or our colleague
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    This concludes our tutorial on how to copy scanned text and then send it quickly when using a Microsoft Lumia 535. If you have any questions or comments about this video, then please leave them in the comments section below. You've been watching VisiHow. Goodbye!
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