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Google Photos can now search for text that appears in user images with its optical character recognition filter

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  • @googlephotos @googlephotos on x
    You spotted it! Starting this month, we're rolling out the ability to search your photos by the text in them. Once you find the photo you're looking for, click the Lens button to easily copy and paste text. Take that, impossible wifi passwords 😏
  • @hunterwalk @hunterwalk on x
    Wow, @googlephotos has OCR to turn screenshots into copy/paste text! A. Open google photos and select screenshot B. Pick “Lens” feature [image 1] C. Highlight text [image 2] D. Pick copy/paste [image 2,3] Nicely done Google team! https://twitter.com/...
  • @gregthegreek Gregory on x
    This is absolutely terrifying I'll probably use it https://twitter.com/...
  • @acaiijawe Faisal Rahim on x
    Google Photos now have powerful optical character recognition (OCR) that can pull text from any image 😍. Snap pictures and grab (copy) text from that image. Useful at presentation, seminar, classes note and even from books (publisher definitely not like it). https://twitter.com/.…