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Within Google photos mobile on iOS, you got an ocr. I take a photo, grab the text and send it via WhatsApp web app. Not easy as a clip to clipboard but I have
by gerardnico 3y ago
Within Google photos mobile on iOS, you got an ocr.
I take a photo, grab the text and send it via WhatsApp web app.
Not easy as a clip to clipboard but I haven’t found any on windows.
- zuhsetaqi 3y agoOn iOS it's system wide. It's an iOS and also a macOS feature
- noselasd 3y agoAnother neat thing is when you copy the text on your iOS device, it appears in your clipboard on Mac, so you can just paste it. (Assuming both devices are on the same wifi/local network.
- walteweiss 3y agoAnd you need to select the check box somewhere in the settings app for it to work. Source: helped a friend with the feature recently, he didn’t know it exists.
- talhah 3y agoIf you're on a Pixel 7 and upwards or the latest Samsung phones there's also circle to search by holding the home button down. The OCR works quite well including English, Russian, Arabic, Japanese and I'm sure it works on other languages too. If you're on Android 14 you can also copy text through the recents/overview menu simply by highlighting the text. And finally there's Google Photos if you don't have any of these features. There's also Google lens if you're trying to copy text that isn't on your screen.
- passion__desire 3y agoYou can take a screenshot. Open that image file with Chrome and then do "Search Images with Google" . There you can grab the text.