• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I can take a screenshot and then have it automatically OCR the text. Hell, I can take a picture with my phone of my chicken scratch handwriting and have it OCR.

    And as someone who remembers buying OCR software from OfficeMax for $40 that barely worked, that’s pretty amazing.

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      8 months ago

      What are you using to OCR screenshots? I have lots of old screenshots and I’d love to OCR them and find notable things I worked on and took a screenshot of.

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          8 months ago

          Thanks for the link!

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        8 months ago

        I have an iPhone and it just sorta does it automatically. If it thinks there’s text it will put yellow corners around it and let me copy it to my clipboard. On my Mac I can just start selecting text and it will figure it out.