Android phones get PC webcam capabilities in the latest beta

Connect an Android "webcam" to Windows, Mac, Linux, or even another Android phone.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/android-phones-get-pc-webcam-capabilities-in-the-latest-beta/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Android phones get PC webcam capabilities in the latest beta

Connect an Android "webcam" to Windows, Mac, Linux, or even another Android phone.

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Next, I want to be able to OCR to PC, w/"keyboard emulation" so that the app inputs the OCR'd text into whatever program you have open.

So, you could, for example, scan a serial number into an Excel spreadsheet with JUST ONE CLICK.

The OCR App on the phone would have various settings like "Single number", "Sentence", "Paragraph", or, just "all text on a page" etc. With context adjusting onscreen boxes highlighting what text will be entered when you press the shutter button.