Finding text within an image

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
April 2, 2023
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I'm blown away. I was searching for a photo by name in "iPhoto" or "photos" or whatever apple is calling it on my iPhone these days. The word I was looking for was "press". Not only did it find an image of a press pass but it found the word "press" WITHIN the image. I mean it was highlighting the WORD inside the image. So I searched for the word "quartet " and it found an image of a poster. The word "quartet" was not in the NAME of the image. The app found the word "quartet" actually in the .jpg snapshot of the poster. It read the image.
question. Can Lightroom do this? If not, why not?

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rbatey

Inspiring

In Photos app on the iPhone, I tried grabbing the text and pasting it into the Caption field, then importing the photo to LRC, but sadly that information is not imported by LRC

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Aleke

Community Manager

Hi @rbatey!

Thanks for your suggestion! I'd recommend heading over to the Lightroom Classic Ideas board to check if there's already a thread for your suggestion. You can upvote existing threads or start a new one if you don't see your idea listed. The team reviews these suggestions and prioritizes future releases based on the number of upvotes.

Here's the link: https://adobe.ly/3DKx77C.

Thanks again!

Best, Alek

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rbatey

Inspiring

Has there been any advancement on this in the two Years since the original post? It is such an amazing and useful feature in iOS, for example when traveling to be able to take a picture of an information sign and grab the text from it. If LRC could do this I could use it in captions and not keep so many photos of signs!

Conrad_C

Community Expert

Just a little background… That image text recognition feature is not really a specific feature of Apple Photos. Apple built it into iOS itself. For example, if you are in the iOS Files app (the iOS “desktop”) and you tap an image in a folder to preview it in QuickLook, holding down your finger on text in that image will cause iOS to recognize that text, right on the desktop. The Copy Subject (press and hold to copy subject without its background) feature also works in QuickLook. So these features work in any Apple app that uses current standard iOS handling of images. Apple Photos simply hooks into that general iOS feature.

Apple makes this technology available to app developers. But Adobe usually uses their own technologies, especially when they want a feature to work the same way across macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android, so Lightroom Classic and Lightroom do not use these Apple features. The subject recognition Lightroom uses is done on Adobe cloud servers, not through iOS, so the results you get probably won’t be exactly the same as when doing it through an app that uses iOS text/subject recognition.

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

You can't do anything like this in Lightroom Classic but Lightroom Cloud does do AI recognition of objects and people in images.

P.S. if you want your mind fully blown, take an image of a tree or plant and open in preview on your Mac. It will identify the type of tree.