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by mcintyre1994 1442 days ago
I love this idea, Apple recently added it for saved photos on iOS and I think in preview too? It doesn't seem to be working for me though. I highlighted some text, hit ctrl + c and got this in my clipboard:

<[ TEXT RECOGNITION IN PROGRESS / MORE INFO: http://projectnaptha.com/process/ (IDX:a:0-a:1-a:2-b:7&a:0&a:0&168&817:XDI) / ELAPSED 26.11SEC / DATE Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:08:50 GMT / TEXT RECOGNITION IN PROGRESS ]>

The right-click translate doesn't seem to work either, it just selects a whole paragraph.

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It works on all images in Safari on macOS as well. It's actually been helpful but was very odd when all of a sudden the functionality appeared out of the blue.
Even though I watch WWDC every year and the iPhone release event, I was surprised with how it works, and how fast it is. Basically hovering my mouse over any image (ouside of Google Chrome/Brave/Firefox) changes the cursor to selectable after half a second or so.

Took me a while to get used to. But it has ben actually useful a number of times. My most common use-case (as a front-end developer) is when people send me screenshots of bugs, and I can select, copy, paste texts from the screenshots to find the source code files =)

it has a full dev sdk as well