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crooked-v 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux...

Note that this is alreay a (non-obvious) built-in feature on Mac and iPhone, called "Live Text". See these articles for examples:

https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/interact-with-text-i...

https://support.apple.com/guide/photos/interact-with-text-in...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212630

LudwigNagasena 6 months ago | [–]

On iPhone you can even search your images by text content.

dotancohen 6 months ago | [–]

For completeness sake, Samsung phones with the S-Pen can also OCR. That would be, the old Note series and now the S-Ultra phones.

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