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Instant in-line OCR on the new iOS15 makes an enormous difference when you’re trying to take notes on an IRL book on the train. Pops up with the select/paste tools in any app. Flawlessly captures text via the camera. Even with dodgy lighting.

Screen capture of text in a book and the same text being inserted via OCR into notes on a phone

Screen capture of the inline text tools on an iPhone

10:11 AM · Dec 7, 2021Twitter for iPhone

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@Mappletons

Yup! Live Text and Text Recognition is one of the wonderful things to come up in iOS 15. 👌🏼

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And you can search all your screen-/"bookshots" by text in the photo gallery!

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Agreed! This opens a lot of new possibilities when adding highlights from physical texts to

@readwiseio

and other highglights consolidation apps.

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So with that I can buy and read IRL books without guilt? ping

That’s really cool if it works! I’ll try it too — esp. on IRL documents I photo with my phone in archives!

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I had no idea this existed, thanks for sharing

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omg

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The same is possible in the office application by using the scanner function or from already taken photos containing text.

@Office365_Tech

Many languages covered and English has even handwritten OCR ⭐⭐⭐

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Nice. However, it’s available on iPhone XS, iPhone XR, or later..