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Fun fact: in macOS Safari, you can copy text from images. It works on videos as well when you press pause and wait five seconds. This is the next-level web browsing UX — now I can copy text from an image on the internet and paste it anywhere I want.

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  • 1
    14d
    And it only produces 200 tons of CO2! Awesome technology
  • 1
    14d
    How many other gems does safari have? I have both an iPhone and a MacBook btw
  • 1
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    @Hazarth I would think this runs text processing in the client’s machine. Not like it’s some big miner or ai model to do OCR. There might be CO2 impacts on a coal grid but not much more than just running the laptop for any other purpose.
  • 0
    14d
    @Hazarth it runs offline client-side
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    14d
    @kiki pfff, runs offline on billions of devices after every 5 seconds for every image on screen. every mac user is responsible and perpetuates!

    Im talking in jest though. I blame all the big corps for this crap
  • 0
    13d
    Yeah I use it sometimes. The phone also has it, it’s pretty helpful. I wonder if they’ll ever invent cut and paste? Maybe they can use AI to develop it.
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    13d
    that's cool, OCR is pretty old tech though so in a different world this could be standard OS functionality.

    In our reality though, even just copying text that's actually presented to the OS as text from applications is a premium feature.
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