With Google Photos, users not only get cloud storage but also powerful image recognition that can identify objects as well as faces and text in the images. A new floating menu bar is now being tested, allowing for immediate and direct interaction with the mapped text. Finally an expansion of Google Photos OCR functionality.
Google Photos is known for being able to recognize content in images and sort them accordingly. The most well-known category is face recognition, but object recognition for the search function should also be used very frequently.
Less known is the recognition of text, which mainly leads to a corresponding classification. These days, many users are experiencing a “chip bar” that has so far mainly been known from the automatic image corrections. Instead of image suggestions, there are text functions.
Depending on the amount of text and perhaps also the level of the test run, there are different numbers of buttons with different functions: The text can be copied to the clipboard, read out, cut out individually or forwarded to Google Lens.
This actually works very well and can also be an alternative for capturing text from Google Photos that you have quickly at hand. This should be implemented primarily through the integration of Lens to photos.