PhanuelRe-tooting to warn more ppl.
@derrickoswald
Google Photos does OCR on handwriting.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/33991054
Google Photos does OCR on handwriting - sh.itjust.works
Just so you know. Maybe I’m late to the party. I take pictures of letters that I write in longhand (yeah, I do that, I’m old, and weird) just so I don’t repeat myself in subsequent letters. Yesterday, I searched in Google Photos on a word in the text of a letter, and it worked!. So, I surmise that Google is using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to index pictures of handwritten text and using that in it’s search algorithm(s). I assume it has been going on a while since it found something I wrote months ago. Don’t assume that using an image protects your content from our tech overlords. Image credit https://unsplash.com/@jbcalligraphy52 [https://unsplash.com/@jbcalligraphy52].
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