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by ryantuck 151 days ago
Went down this rabbit hole a few months ago seeing whether it was at all possible to disable the automatic OCR / processing of all image files on macOS.

Wasn't able to figure out how to do so but this blog was absolutely the best resource for digging one layer deeper on all things Spotlight-related, highly recommend.
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Citizen8396 151 days ago
Haven't tested this, but try:

System Settings > General > Language & Region > Live Text

"Select text in images to copy or take action."

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jwagenet 151 days ago
I understand people don't like this kind of OCR stuff for privacy reasons, but selecting text from images is probably the most useful feature added to iOS in the last ~5 years for me.
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walterbell 151 days ago
It could be even more useful if performed on demand, e.g. long-press on photo region with text.
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jaffa2 151 days ago
Isnt that exactly how it works?
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walterbell 151 days ago
From the first message in this thread:

  automatic OCR / processing of all image files on macOS
If OCR was deferred until user request/consent, it would eliminate the battery/performance cost of speculative image analysis.
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zapzupnz 151 days ago
The first message in the thread isn't the definition of the actual feature.
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