Sunday, November 28, 2021

iOS Text OCR Feature

One of TapToCount-3W feature is to enter text as a tap's description. This is a very important information to describe What that tap is. However, in many cases, you may be in an awkward situate that you don't have time to enter the text information.

iOS 15 introduces a new feature: Camera Text Recognization. This provides a very handy way to copy and paste recognized text from live Camera to your tap's note.

In addition to get live text from Camera, you can also get live text from TapToCount-3W app. In a tap's Note view, tap on text area to get context menu up. It will display either:


your iPhone has some text ready for paste; or none text for paste:


Tap on Select text icon, then camera will be displayed on the bottom of your screen view, where text will be automatically recognized and selected. You can move around to select text you want. Press Insert button to insert text to the note edit area. The following is an example of my case (aiming at the screen of this web page):

See references for detail information.

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