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I had my mind blown by the same functionality in Android. Being able to select text from an app in the app-switching context is amazing. I will definitely use
by bjoli 4y ago
I had my mind blown by the same functionality in Android. Being able to select text from an app in the app-switching context is amazing.
I will definitely use this.
- bigmattystyles 4y agoOn Windows with the new PowerToys, win+shift+t does the same thing - works really well! https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/text-extractor https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/text-ext...
- stavros 4y agoHow do you do this on Android?
- tripdout 4y agoIt's only for Pixel phones.
- lgas 4y agoHow do you do it on Pixel phones?
- lazycouchpotato 4y agoYou need to use the Pixel Launcher, if you aren't already. It might also be restricted to English (United States) only as well. If you're using gesture navigation, swipe up from the pill to about a quarter of the screen to pull up your recent apps list. If using 3-button navigation, press the square button. Then tap the Select button. https://imgur.com/a/pJFVr4o https://imgur.com/a/pJFVr4o
- RobinL 4y agoYou can also do it with Google lens on any android, unless I'm misunderstanding the functionality
- quelltext 4y agoThat doesn't use OCR.
- bjoli 4y agoIt can select text from images. It uses OCR.
- lazycouchpotato 4y agoThere are two options for text selection. Overview selection is Pixel-exclusive and that is definitely OCR since it can detect text in images. It's not perfect however, and it doesn't seem to support non-Latin script. The other way is to use an app like Copy [1] which analyzes app layouts. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.weberdo.apps.copy https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.weberdo.ap...