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Works for images in Preview and even in Safari too. Super handy.
by jwells89 2y ago
Works for images in Preview and even in Safari too. Super handy.
- evilduck 2y agoWorks in Photos.app for searching for text in your photo albums too. macOS OCR behavior extends to most similar things in iOS too.
- bobnamob 2y agoWhich makes Photos.app a surprisingly good recipe book.
- evilduck 2y agoAlso as a rolodex. I just take pictures of business cards and you can long press to OCR the phone number and dial from that immediately with no need to even create contact entries unless it becomes a repeat relationship, and if you do, you can usually insta-create the contact card in full with just a long press on the image.
- vundercind 2y agoThe moment I realized this was now a table-stakes feature for a GUI OS, for me, was when I’d been reading and copy-pasting from an image for a couple minutes before realizing it wasn’t a PDF.
- frizlab 2y agoYou can even search for text in images in Safari. I was dumbfounded the first time I searched for some text in a page and Safari found it in an image on the page.