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So I want to show you one of the coolest features for your iPhone if you've upgraded to iOS 15
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It's called Live Text and it will let you pull text off any photo
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So let's get started. Here's an example of a situation that you might have
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Someone handed you a hard copy of a document without a digital copy, so now you have to
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go in and edit that. So what you can do with Live Text is take your camera out, kind of hover your camera
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somewhere where it's pointing to the text, and you'll notice that in the bottom right
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hand side you'll see the Live Text icon pop up. So you'll want to position your camera where you can see this yellow box around the text
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that means that your iPhone camera is able to pick it up and what you'll want to do is
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to take a photo of that. There we go. So I just took a photo and now you'll notice that it's giving me a separate view of just
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the text and the Live Text icon will be highlighted. So from here I can highlight and copy the text and I can open a Google Drive document
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and now I can paste the text directly inside this Google Drive document so I can go through
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and edit this the way that I normally could if I had a digital version
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So it's a great way to take a paper version and immediately transfer it into text
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Now it's more than just text. You can see here is a book
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It is Martin Luther King Day and Live Type will be able to see the title of this book
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and recognize that as text characters and again I can follow the same process of taking
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a photo and copying and pasting the text even though the fonts, the lettering isn't
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similar to how you would typically see the text on a document
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It's a very powerful tool. And you'll also notice that sometimes when I paste it, it's not exactly 100% correct
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but what it does really well again is being able to find just plain text
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So let's say that there's a page inside this book and all I'd have to do again, point my
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camera at the text to where the yellow bars are around there
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I can then just highlight whatever text I want. Maybe I just want this one sentence or I want the whole thing
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It doesn't really matter. I can copy that, open up the notes on my phone and paste it inside
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Now you don't have to take a picture of something in order to use live text
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Here's an example of a text message that someone sent me with a screenshot to a website
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So I can then tap on the screenshot and using live text, I can press on the text, select
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it and copy and paste it into a different program. So again, that's live text that's available on any iOS device, meaning an iPad or iPhone
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that has iOS 15 or greater installed. So thank you for watching this video on how to use live text to extract text
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