{"id":32800,"date":"2021-06-11T20:21:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T00:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32800"},"modified":"2021-07-27T14:43:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T18:43:59","slug":"live-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/11\/live-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/06\/11\/ios-15-live-text-features-and-abilities\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/06\/11\/ios-15-live-text-features-and-abilities\/\">\n<p>In iOS 15, Apple is introducing a new feature called Live Text that can recognize text when it appears in your camera&rsquo;s viewfinder or in a photo you&rsquo;ve taken and let you perform several actions with it.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Live Text allows you to capture a phone number from a storefront with the option to place a call, or look up a location name in Maps to get directions. It also incorporates optical character recognition, so you can search for a picture of a handwritten note in your photos and save it as text.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>This looks really cool. I find it hard to believe that Intel Macs aren&rsquo;t fast enough to support it, though. And why doesn&rsquo;t it work in Preview?<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/08\/ios-15-and-ipados-15-announced\/\">iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 Announced<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/08\/macos-12-monterey-announced\/\">macOS 12 Monterey Announced<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"live-text-update-2021-06-18\">Update (2021-06-18): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kawaljit\/status\/1405048528976576514\">Kawaljit Singh Bedi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kawaljit\/status\/1405048528976576514\">\n<p>macOS Monterey OCR works on captchas also.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"live-text-update-2021-07-27\">Update (2021-07-27): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/07\/27\/macos-monterey-live-text-intel-based-macs\/\">Sami Fathi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/07\/27\/macos-monterey-live-text-intel-based-macs\/\">\n<p>The latest beta update of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/macos-12\/\">macOS Monterey<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/07\/27\/apple-seeds-macos-monterey-beta-4\/\">released to developers today<\/a>, has brought Live Text functionality to Intel-based Mac computers, removing the requirement for users to use an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/m1\/\">M1<\/a> Apple silicon Mac to utilize the feature, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reneritchie\/status\/1420075589617209349\">Rene Ritchie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hardwick: In iOS 15, Apple is introducing a new feature called Live Text that can recognize text when it appears in your camera&rsquo;s viewfinder or in a photo you&rsquo;ve taken and let you perform several actions with it. 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