How I do I get a string that has been drawn to canvas?

[arthur]

Hi!

How I do I get a string that has been drawn to canvas?

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var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
context.fillText("HelloWorld");

I want to get the string "HelloWorld"

Thank you.

[zcorpan]

You have to keep a reference to the string manually. There's no way to get it back (short of reading the pixel data and applying OCR).