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Google Lens Now On Desktop With OCR in Google Photos

         

engine

11:22 am on Apr 13, 2021 (gmt 0)

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Google Lens has been around a while for Android, but it's now coming to desktop and it allows users to copy text from images using OCR.

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lammert

2:34 pm on Apr 13, 2021 (gmt 0)

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Google Lens is one of the undervalued developments of Google IMO. The use cases are incredible. I have used it to find a manual for an heating appliance I had for example which didn't have a brand name or product number. Just pointing the lens to the device and in a few seconds multiple sites popped up with exactly that appliance.

This desktop version seems to be severely limited though with only the OCR functionality, but no object recognition built-in.