this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2023
22 points (92.3% liked)

Android

17722 readers
35 users here now

The new home of /r/Android on Lemmy and the Fediverse!

Android news, reviews, tips, and discussions about rooting, tutorials, and apps.

🔗Universal Link: [email protected]


💡Content Philosophy:

Content which benefits the community (news, rumours, and discussions) is generally allowed and is valued over content which benefits only the individual (technical questions, help buying/selling, rants, self-promotion, etc.) which will be removed if it's in violation of the rules.


Support, technical, or app related questions belong in: [email protected]

For fresh communities, lemmy apps, and instance updates: [email protected]

💬Matrix Chat

💬Telegram channels / chats

📰Our communities below


Rules

  1. Stay on topic: All posts should be related to the Android OS or ecosystem.

  2. No support questions, recommendation requests, rants, or bug reports: Posts must benefit the community rather than the individual. Please post to [email protected].

  3. Describe images/videos, no memes: Please include a text description when sharing images or videos. Post memes to [email protected].

  4. No self-promotion spam: Active community members can post their apps if they answer any questions in the comments. Please do not post links to your own website, YouTube, blog content, or communities.

  5. No reposts or rehosted content: Share only the original source of an article, unless it's not available in English or requires logging in (like Twitter). Avoid reposting the same topic from other sources.

  6. No editorializing titles: You can add the author or website's name if helpful, but keep article titles unchanged.

  7. No piracy or unverified APKs: Do not share links or direct people to pirated content or unverified APKs, which may contain malicious code.

  8. No unauthorized polls, bots, or giveaways: Do not create polls, use bots, or organize giveaways without first contacting mods for approval.

  9. No offensive or low-effort content: Don't post offensive or unhelpful content. Keep it civil and friendly!

  10. No affiliate links: Posting affiliate links is not allowed.

Quick Links

Our Communities

Lemmy App List

Chat and More


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

is there any launcher out there which has got offline OCR support in recents like the Pixel Launcher? Not talking about the Google lens implementation in recents menu here. I uninstalled the Google App from my phone using SD Maid. The custom rom I use(EvolutionX) does have launcher3 as its default(basically identical to Pixel launcher in every aspect, just without that Select/OCR in recents menu, and its got a bit more customisability since it’s open source), but being able to select images/text right from the recents menu without having to connect to the internet was something that I found to be a really powerful tool. miss having it handy whenever I needed it…

top 14 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] champagne_laugh 6 points 1 year ago

Just to clarify, on pixel phones, when you go to the recents menu, you are able to select text from all the app previews. If you have a photo with text open in an app and go to the recents menu, you can select and copy the text from that preview. Same goes if you use an app that doesn't allow selecting and copying text. If you go to the recents menu, you will be able to select that text ;-)

[–] champagne_laugh 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That isn't a launcher specific functionality. It's the recent menu on Pixel phones and I guess it should be a part of Android 13, but it might be locked to Pixel phones right now. I'm using a custom launcher on my Pixel 7 Pro and I still have access to the OCR functionality in the recents menu.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm also using a custom launcher and a Pixel 7a, and have always had the ability to copy the text from app previews in recents. I only learned the other day that this was Pixel exclusive, I hadn't heard it was supposed to be launcher exclusive.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if it was locked to pixels specifically, devs would've been able to implement it into mods like Pixelify which ports over all Pixel exclusive features, but i don't really know...

[–] champagne_laugh 1 points 1 year ago

I would guess it should be possible. Unfortunately I'm not really active in the modding community these days, so I cannot really recommend anything. It's quite annoying with these Pixel locked features :-\

[–] j4k3 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know about launchers but this offline OCR works really well:

https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.subhamtyagi.ocr/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

OCR = optical character recognition??

If so, then I only know of a good app, dunno what you mean with "recents" and pixel launcher stuff exactly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Then I only know of a good app, dunno what you mean with "recents" and pixel launcher stuff exactly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

recents menu: overview, that pops up when you swipe up from the home bar

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah idk for me that just opens my app drawer :D

[–] warmaster 1 points 1 year ago

This is súper useful, if you find anything ley us know please.

load more comments
view more: next ›