The latest update of the Google Keep application brings a very useful new feature that was missing, that of transcribing the text found in the photos and images. In practice, it is the OCR function, the optical character recognition that allows you to extract text from images to make it editable on the computer.
Google Keep is an app similar to Microsoft's Onenote, which is used to write notes to remember and to-do lists, via the web or via mobile phone (for now only Android).
Notes can also be represented by audio recordings or by images and photographs.
The new version of Google Keep, for Android and via the web, also makes the transcription of the text found in the photos which is very convenient when you want to keep a page of a magazine, a book or signs and posters to be able to send them as editable text, for a document or for social media.
Google Keep is certainly not the only application that does this job but it can easily be considered the most comfortable.
In practice, just take the picture, then touch the button of three vertical dots and select " transcribe the text ".
The function that allows you to find printed text in each photo is active both on the Android app and in the version of the Google Keep website that you can try immediately by loading a
photos from your computer.
I remember that Google Keep is free, that the notes are synchronized online and on the smartphone and that it integrates into Google Drive.
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