Folks, did you know there are apps where you can photograph a page in a book and the app converts it to text that you can copy-paste into a .doc file? Or an email? Or anything?
I’m in paradise.
9 responses to “Tech Paradise”
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Yes, it’s called OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and has been around for decades 😉
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I had a pen scanner for years but it had to be attached to a computer and the quality wasn’t great. This one, though, is miraculous.
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Enter “image to text scan” into the search of your app store, and you’ll see a ton of them.
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The more impressive to me was when I first used Google Translate for on the fly image to text translation. You aim your phone at something like a sign on the street and it’s able to translate that sign for you in real-time; as in you see the text translation immediately on your phone.
This stuff is going to be insane once Augmented Reality (AR) tech really takes off.
A conservative literary critic and college professor
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