why does the font look different when i copy text from an image?

When you copy text from an image, the font often looks different due to the CSS font-family fallback chain and system font availability. Images do not contain actual text fonts; instead, they are rasterized or vector graphics that represent the text visually.

When you use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tools like Adobe Acrobat to extract text, the software typically assigns a default system font to the copied text, which may not exactly match the original due to font availability on your device. Furthermore, variations in kerning and leading can cause the text layout to appear differently when pasted into a document or application.

EditTextImage, while designed primarily for editing text within images, can also serve as a tool for analyzing and replicating text attributes within the image itself, preserving the visual style rather than extracting the text.

If you need to ensure a match to the original font style, you may want to manually find and install the font used in the image. Adobe Fonts and Google Fonts can be useful repositories for finding similar typefaces. Keep in mind that some fonts used in images might be custom or proprietary, making them harder to replicate exactly.