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For "Live Text" in macOS Monterey, can you have it scan all of your photos, and use the Live Text OCR'd content to search against in Spotlight Search?

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MacOS Monterey includes "Live Text", which is OCR to use when viewing your photos, including handwriting recognition. But I have thousands of photos, many of which are photos of presentations, pictures of PowerPoint slides taken from my seat in the audience, etc. I also have hundreds of screenshots with text from YouTube. I'd like the Mac to slowly work its way through *all* of my photos and add the recognized text as some type of searchable attribute, attached to each photo. So can I have Live Text OCR my entire Photo Library?
Asked by Mark Bennett (431 rep)
Oct 21, 2021, 07:05 PM
Last activity: Jan 10, 2023, 05:39 PM