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They are using OCR for selecting plain text?
by taskforcegemini 11mo ago
They are using OCR for selecting plain text?
- AlienRobot 11mo agoAt least it's not AI... yet.
- xnx 11mo agoMulti-modal LLMs like Gemini are better than traditional OCR in most ways.
- hulitu 11mo agoIt is a poor person, sitting in a 3rd world country, thanscribing the text in your clipboard. See Alexa for details. /s I'm only half joking.
- doubled112 11mo agoThere’s an API (Actually People Implemented) for that.
- eastbound 11mo agoOn iPhone too, taking a screenshot is the single reliable way to select text.
- throwaway894345 11mo agoIt becomes possible. Getting the handles to move correctly is still often a frustrating experience.
- aoeusnth1 11mo agoIt's possible to use the Gemini "ask me about this screen" to OCR the selected area of the screenshot. I guess that might be more efficient in some contexts then trying to use the native text select.