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Use Live Text with your iPhone camera

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Apple's steps to copy, translate or look up text the iPhone camera sees.

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The question it answers

  1. How do I extract text from an image or a scanned PDF?

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  1. How to copy, translate or look up text in an image opened in Preview. support.apple.com Article Interact with text in a photo using Live Text in Preview on Mac Apple Support
  2. Google's visual search, including copying or translating text from a photo or screenshot. search.google Tool Google Lens Google
  3. Microsoft's free utility for copying text from anywhere on a Windows screen, including inside images and videos, with a... learn.microsoft.com Tool PowerToys Text Extractor Microsoft Learn
  4. Open with Google Docs turns a scan or photo into text: files of 2 MB or less, text at least 10 pixels high, and a long list of... support.google.com Article Convert PDF and photo files to text Google Drive Help
  5. Adobe's free online OCR that turns a scanned PDF into a searchable one; you sign in to download. Your file is handled on... adobe.com Tool Free OCR for PDF Adobe
  6. A free, open-source command-line tool that adds a searchable text layer to scanned PDFs on your own computer. ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io Tool OCRmyPDF OCRmyPDF (open source)
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