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How QuickLook Preview doesn’t tell Apple about images

A thorough look at Live Text, and why it might need to connect to Apple’s servers. Could it be sending image identifiers or text extracted from your local images?

January 27, 2023 Macs, Technology

Is Apple checking images we view in the Finder?

Can it be true that Apple is sent information about every image we browse in the Finder? Analysis of Visual Look Up and Live Text and when it happens.

January 18, 2023 Macs, Technology

Explainer: Live Text

This should be one of the most transformative features we’ve seen in a recent version of macOS. Its OCR is excellent, and uses recognised text to link to knowledge.

August 21, 2021 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

PDF without Adobe 25: If at first you don’t succeed, try OCRing again

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This PDF contained 161 scanned pages from a book, but not one word could be accessed as text, despite using OCR on them. What can you do?

July 2, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Inside the Mueller Report with Podofyllin: can it be deredacted?

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Looking inside the Mueller report to see if any hidden content can be revealed. Includes a free Rich Text transcription of the report.

April 20, 2019 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Opening access: entering text without a keyboard

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A thorough account of Dictation in El Capitan, and how you can use your Mac despite having RSI, etc.

December 3, 2015 Macs, Technology

Just Take This Down: Optical Character Recognition

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OCR was supposed to be an essential tool for turning scanned documents from images into searchable text content. Does it?

November 11, 2015 Language, Macs, Technology
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