What it does is recognize words in any image, then turn them into regular text.
It makes the real world searchable, editable, and more usable.
Theres no special mode.
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Apple has added live text anywhere it makes sense.
It makes the real world searchable, editable, and more usable.
In most cases, the text in a photo is simply text.
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Say you took a photo of a product label in a store to remember to check on it later.
Its just that now, all images of text are also text, automatically.
Are you trying to remember where you ate that delicious rice dish on holiday in the Costa Brava?
If you photographed the menu, youll be able to find it easily.
Or how about building a recipe book without even trying?
Live Text fundamentally changes how you interact with the world.
There are already bits and pieces of this in computing.
Its all the same.
Even those screenshots of text people post on Twitter are now as usable as if theyd done it properly.
AR Lite
Live Text is another example of Apple diving into augmented reality.
Live Text fundamentally changes how you interact with the world.
But for now, were all benefitting from Apples AR experiments.
Live Text is just fantastic.
Ive only been using it for a couple of days, and it already seems natural.
I cant wait to see what app developers do with it.
