Apple has introduced a brand new characteristic referred to as Live Text, which is able to digitize the textual content in all of your photographs. This unlocks a slew of helpful capabilities, from turning handwritten notes into emails and messages, to looking your digicam roll for receipts or recipes you’ve photographed.

This is definitely not a brand new characteristic, and we’ve seen firms like Samsung provide comparable instruments up to now. But Apple’s implementation does look sometimes easy. With Live Text, for instance, you’ll be able to faucet on the textual content in any picture in your digicam roll and instantly take motion from it. You can copy and paste that textual content, seek for it on the net, or — if it’s a telephone quantity — name that quantity.

Apple says the characteristic is enabled utilizing “on-device intelligence,” which appears to be the corporate’s most well-liked phrase for machine studying. It stresses Apple’s privacy-focused method to AI, which focuses on processing data on-device somewhat than within the cloud.

Live Text works throughout iPhones, iPads, and Mac computer systems and helps seven languages.

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