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Google has announced the introduction of new artificial intelligence features for the Google Lens platform, allowing users to search the Google Photos library for text appearing in images and screenshots.

According to the company, after a text search, users can easily copy it and paste it into a note, document or form with the help of Google Lens.

The Google Photos search feature is a powerful tool that allows you to find certain objects, places, pets, events or even people with artificial intelligence, but it is now smarter.

The Google Lens platform also includes a powerful OCR filter that can extract text from any image, available in Google Photos.

Google Image Library's search function for copying and pasting text into images uses a technique known as Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

As mentioned in the tweet from Google, the feature is launched from this month, with access to some Android users and users of the Web version, without any indication of its access to the system. exploitation (iOS).

Text search in Google Photos is ideal for documents, wireless network passwords, and any other item recorded while taking a picture.

As soon as the desired image appears after the search, Google recommends users to click the button (Google Lens) to copy and paste text easily.

With this feature, Google Photos automatically applies Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to all user images and can store metadata on text in the image.

The features appear to be related to a feature announced at the company's annual developer conference (Google I / O 2017), which will allow Google Lens to understand the context of the image.

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