Before, we can quickly search for specific events, people, pets, locations… with Google Photos’ AI technology.
Now, Google has launched a cool feature — Allows you to search directly for text in photos.
When we open Google Photos, open the search box and search for the text we’re looking for, the album will show an image with relevant text.
And, when we select the image, click on the “Lens” button to copy the selected text and paste it into the note and document.
There is mainly the use of optical character recognition (OCR) technology in Google Lens, which can passBuilt-in filters to accurately extract text from a large number of images.
This new feature is good at finding text in screenshots and other clearly aligned words, but it also has the advantage that when the fonts in the photo are skewed, distorted, and non-standardized, they are also recognized.
As we become more and more inclined to record life with photos or screenshots, this feature is very useful for us to find the information we need from the image at any time.
For example, search for Wi-Fi passwords taken in the store, posters of movies you want to watch on the roadside, interesting passages taken in books, important content in WeChat screenshots, and more.
In the beginning, this feature was being used by users on Twitter @can< /span> and @hunterwalk found that Google Photos itself confirmed this feature on Twitter.
This feature is available for Android and iOS apps as well as web clients.
According to 9to5Google, this feature is now available on some Android devices Used on, but it hasn’t entered the iOS device yet, but you can also try to search for text in your photos using Google Photos on the web.
This new feature also means that Google Photos will apply OCR technology to all images in user albums and store metadata about the text contained in the photos in some way, but there is no more Related news.
OCR technology is the cornerstone of more powerful AI technology.
For example, when you point your phone at a picture with a Wi-Fi password on the wall, the camera automatically recognizes, reads, and connects your phone to Wi-Fi.
Later, Google Lens added a variety of New features related to OCR technology, such as shooting products to search for product information synchronously, shooting business cards to add contact information to the address book, pointing the camera at the musician’s poster, the phone can play related Music videos and more.
Google says their AI camera tools are now availableIdentify over 1 billion items.
This Google Photo Album’s “Recognize Text from Photos” feature also seems to be designed to make your AI technology more adaptable and more widely available to users.
The picture in the text is from TheVerge, some images are from: Google