Skip to main content
Ask Different

Questions tagged [live-text]

Ask Question

The tag has no summary.

7 questions
Newest Active Bountied Unanswered
1 vote
0 answers
72 views

I know there are older questions on OCR, but many of them have been obsoleted by recent versions of macOS. I have a PDF file which is basically built from images of printed text. I want to convert ...
Manngo's user avatar
  • 3,813
1 vote
1 answer
328 views

I’m finding the Live Text feature on iOS to be incredibly useful. For example, it allows me to copy example sentences from the Duolingo language-learning app if I save the sentence as screenshot. I’d ...
EJ Mak's user avatar
  • 863
3 votes
1 answer
2k views

I want to use Apple's new Live Text feature to search a PDF for a specific text phrase. The PDF is a large file without any baked-in encoded text. Just many pages of images of scanned text, stored in ...
pkamb's user avatar
  • 9,753
5 votes
3 answers
5k views

I have scanned a document and turned it into a PDF. When I open that PDF in Preview, I would have expected all of the text in the doc to be selectable via Live Text, but it's not. However, if I take a ...
Sam's user avatar
  • 3,018
31 votes
5 answers
35k views

Recently I've found on my Mac that I can easily highlight text in an image that wasn't possible before. Is there also a built-in CLI option or an AppleScript option to address the OCR program with ...
user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
401 views

Live Text seems to work in Photos for pictures that I've taken with my iPhone camera. However, I want to use the Live Text on screenshots from meetings. I've imported the screenshot into Photos, with ...
Mark Bennett's user avatar
  • 441
15 votes
3 answers
3k views

MacOS Monterey includes "Live Text", which is OCR to use when viewing your photos, including handwriting recognition. But I have thousands of photos, many of which are photos of ...
Mark Bennett's user avatar
  • 441