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Works in Photos.app for searching for text in your photo albums too.

macOS OCR behavior extends to most similar things in iOS too.



Which makes Photos.app a surprisingly good recipe book.


Also as a rolodex. I just take pictures of business cards and you can long press to OCR the phone number and dial from that immediately with no need to even create contact entries unless it becomes a repeat relationship, and if you do, you can usually insta-create the contact card in full with just a long press on the image.




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