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Extract text from Smart Select not working properly

(Topic created: 11-03-2022 09:29 PM)
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billc_ia
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I'm new to a Note 10+ and I did a lasso around a section of a picture to extract some text. Worked three times, and now I just get gibberish. Not sure what to do. Any thoughts?

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tom2055
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Occasionally it doesn't pick up the text correctly
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billc_ia
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Thanks for the input- this is even without using the S-Pen. It's like every time. Even with the first three that worked, they don't now.
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ZaCloud
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Wow, if you flip the picture around, you can see that it can't decide which way to interpret the text. It's starting from the bottom/right for some reason, doing 1 or 2 sets of letters/numbers as if you're leaning your head to the right, then to the left. So some sequences are its attempt to get text from something it's seeing upside-down!

(Head tilted right) USA IN (head tilted left) heh yeah see how it thinks the D is an O, the W looks like M to it, SS, then the upside-down A is seen as a Y! 😂

So I say, try rotating the image so it's facing right-side-up, then try this again. You might have better luck! 😉

(Though this IS a legitimate complaint to submit as feedback to Samsung in the app; it should know better & be able to compensate for off-kilter text LOL.)
billc_ia
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That did the trick! Thanks!!!