Did you know that your phone can possibly do Optical Character Recognition (OCR)?
Mine, a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, can.
- I took a picture of an informative display hanging on the wall, that had two columns of side-by-side text.
- I then used the camera's photo editing software (the pen icon at the bottom of the image below) to crop the image to just one of the text columns, and saved (upper-right corner of the cropped image below) that image.
- Then at the bottom right corner of that same editing window is a little yellow "T" in a broken-outline box (see the Gallery image above). When I clicked on that "T", it OCR'd the text and highlighted it.
- I was then able to single-press on the text, which popped up a menu allowing me to "Select All", which popped up another menu allowing me to "Copy".
- I could then go to an editor of some sort, and "Paste" the text into the editor.
- I then went back to my image, and edited it again, and "Revert"ed it back to the original.
- I then repeated the process for the second column.
In just a minute or two, I had the full text of the two columns of the informative display in an editor. With a clean original image with clean-looking text, the accuracy is very high.
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