Text Recognition in a Photo

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2021-11-23 17:56:37

Hello,

I am just starting to use Pixelmator Pro. Is there a method to do text recognition from a photo (JPG), so that the text can be edited?

Thank you.
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2021-11-24 11:40:45

Hey Evan! There isn't a feature like that you can use in Pixelmator Pro directly but you should be able to easily copy text from images using the Live Text feature in macOS Preview. Just open a photo and move your mouse over text — the pointer should change to an I-beam cursor automatically and let you copy text.

Also, there are dedicated OCR software out there you can look into. There's one called "Textsniper" suggested by user mccoytest in this thread here. There are also character recognition tools you can find online.