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    OCR From Google Photos

    Today I was reading old printed text, no file, my own printed text

    Looked for OCR

    Seems Google just added OCR this week to Google Photos

    This is very important to any Artist/Photographer

    https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/12/2...copy-text-lens

    Will test it after my chores
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    Re: OCR From Google Photos

    thats pretty cool. i know my old scanner has an ocr feature but ive never tried it.

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    Re: OCR From Google Photos

    I've used it in google photos for quite a while to find documents photographed and photos with text in the photo... It finds text from signs, pictures of business cards, document, screenshots, anywhere really.

    Here's look for stop or kodak in my photos... It even read kodak off the barrel of the AE.

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    The AI stuff for organizing/discovering photo content would be a wishful and good next step for adobe lightroom or a competitor... It'd be nice to cut down on the manual tag work for organizing.

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    Re: OCR From Google Photos

    Finally, such a convenient and essential function has appeared in Google photos. As a student, I constantly have to deal with the need to scan a text from a photo, saving a lot of time in my studies. I often have to download pictures of my notes for my university homework, and recently I needed to download all images from google photos because I had to change the mail, and it was not as easy as I thought. It wasn't easy to find a good article where all this could be described clearly and without unnecessary information. So if someone needs to know how to download photos from google photos, I advise you to use the article that helped me. Hopefully, soon Google will have even more cool apps
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    Re: OCR From Google Photos

    Orange County Raceway? That's been gone a long time.

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    Re: OCR From Google Photos

    So how does this work? A page of text is scanned and the OCR feature turns it into a Word document? Can you change the font or edit the text? Do you have to buy something or is it already available on Google?

    I am visually impaired and this sounds like something that will help me with printed materials that have really small text.
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    Re: OCR From Google Photos

    ” Never attribute to inspiration that which can be adequately explained by delusion”.

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    Re: OCR From Google Photos

    not funny

    Quote Originally Posted by Willie View Post
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    Re: OCR From Google Photos

    What many of us wanted to know is what is OCR?

    OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION

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    Re: OCR From Google Photos

    Quote Originally Posted by Tin Can View Post
    not funny
    I typed in "OCR" and that is what came up.

    As Eric Woodbury wrote - some of us don't know what the letters mean and often they have different meanings.
    ” Never attribute to inspiration that which can be adequately explained by delusion”.

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