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?
OCR
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.
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.
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?
Looking inside the Mueller report to see if any hidden content can be revealed. Includes a free Rich Text transcription of the report.
A thorough account of Dictation in El Capitan, and how you can use your Mac despite having RSI, etc.
OCR was supposed to be an essential tool for turning scanned documents from images into searchable text content. Does it?
The Eclectic Light Company 