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Have you ever wondered if there is an easier way to share your WiFi password? You have to take a photo of the sticker behind the router, or write down the code on a piece of paper and then transcribe it into a message... Well, from now on Google Photos presents you with a solution to this and other problems related to extract texts from photos Something very convenient for those who use their mobile for everything.
And is that Google Photos is launching a new OCR function in its application.It is reaching all users in stages, so it may take time for it to appear on your mobile. It consists of optical character recognition (OCR), and it is neither more nor less than detecting the text in a photo or image . Something really useful to save time transcribing that text on the mobile, or to extract information from a photo, copy it and paste it directly where we want to send it.
Step by Step
The operation is really simple, and it is fully integrated into Google Photos. It is carried out thanks to the Google Lens tool, which analyzes images to perform related searches.
Just take a screenshot of a web page, or a photo of a text, such as a restaurant menu. Then go to Google Photos, and search for this image. When you click on it you will see the contextual menu with the sharing tools at the bottom.Among them is the Google Lens icon, square with a dot in the center.
Click on Google Lens for this tool to do its “magic” and scan the image for information and text. Once this is done select, in the image, the text you want to copy It's as easy as making a long press and extending the selector over all the text you want to mark . Just as you would on a website or in a conversation.
This causes Google Lens to display a card with different options. Among them is copy In this way we can instantly transcribe the text of a photograph and take it anywhere: a chat, an email, a note, etc In addition, Google Photos does not discriminate by language or typography. If the photo is good enough (light and clarity of the text) for Google Lens to find the text, there will be no problem transcribing, understanding, translating, copying and pasting any character from an image.
You spotted it! Starting this month, we're rolling out the ability to search your photos by the text in them.
Once you find the photo you're looking for, click the Lens button to easily copy and paste text. Take that, impossible wifi passwords ?
- Google Photos (@googlephotos) August 22, 2019
Of course, the most interesting thing about this function is that, when searching Google Photos, we can search by the text in them . Something that will allow us to record all the information in the photos to look for it if necessary.
