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Android's task switcher does this, and it's amazing. I find myself using it all the time.
Meanwhile, OSX has something similar, but it involves more work, so I can't be bothered.
If the application behaves, you can directly select text in images. Preview does it, Safari does it (in videos too), Photos does it, the window that comes up after you take a screenshot does it (I guess that's closest to what Android does, in which way is it more work?), to name a few. I'd love this to become a standard on Linux, it's so very useful.