Here is a small, well-hidden novelty from Ventura: an OCR option in Image Transfer, Apple’s application for importing photos to your Mac. This offers to transform the text of a scan into an exportable layer that can be more easily extracted on other platforms.
Image Transfer is not only used to recover photos from your iPhone: it also allows you to scan documents, for example using a scanner or a connected printer. By scanning a document via the app, it is now possible to check a new OCR option, which will extract its text in passing.
The created PDF will then embed exportable text. It can be copied quickly, whether you open the document on an older version of macOS or on a Windows PC. Ventura offers this natively on all PDFs thanks to Live Text, but the function can still be useful if you send your files to people who do not have a recent Mac on hand.