search for text in images

Google is loosening its optical character recognition muscle with the ability to search for text in Google Photos. L & # 39; Company confirmed the functionality on Twitter after users have discovered it by themselves, but this continues to be broadcast to everyone.

With the Google Photos mobile app, you can go further and copy text from images. Simply press the lens button (the square shape with the circle on the inside) when you are viewing a photo, then tap a section of text to highlight it for copying or searching. If you usually take screenshots on your phone, you can search for "screenshots" and find many pictures on which you can try it.

Google Photos has recently passed the bar of billions of users. It has so much data to form its computer vision models to features such as text recognition. That said, frequent users of Evernote can point out that the note-taking app offered similar functionality years ago.