That done, simply point your camera at any handwritten text, highlight it on-screen, and select copy. You can then go to any document in Google Docs, hit Edit, and then Paste to paste the text.

But that is going to change. As described in a Google Chromium conversation, Pickle Clipboard APIs will expand the copy and paste capability to non-standard web formats. "Pickle Clipboard API lets ...

Let's say you're trying to copy and paste an offer that popped up in Google ... Accessibility settings to give you the ability to copy text in apps that otherwise don't let you.