{"id":17057,"date":"2019-08-28T16:40:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apptunix.com\/?p=16638"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:29:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:29:23","slug":"google-photos-text-search-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apptunix.com\/blog\/google-photos-text-search-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Photos Will Now Let You Search for Text in Your Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google Photos already has a number of helpful automatic tagging features that let you search every image you&#8217;ve taken &#8211; may it be of a dog, a flower or a car &#8211; with just a simple search. However, now, after a few eagle-eyed Google photos\u2019 users spotted another tremendous feature in the app, Google has announced that Photos is getting the capacity to search for pictures based on the content captured in the same.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/googlephotos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Twitter\u2019s official account of Google Photos (opens in a new tab)\">Twitter\u2019s official account of Google Photos<\/a>, the team announced that its new text search feature will roll out this month, with some fortunate users already having access to the same as of now.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How Does The Text Search Feature Work?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just after a user uploads the pictures to the cloud, Google utilizes on-screen character recognition (OCR) to scan the photographs and then label them with the related text. 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