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Camera (Scan and Extract Text) Issue...

(Topic created: 04-02-2021 09:40 PM)
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Galaxy S21

So when I go to take a picture of anything with text... it gives me the option to SCAN but I have never seen the option to Extract Text? Anyone happen to know if this is supposed to be a basic camera function or is the camera using another app to this part and if so... what app? I do have some thing disabled so maybe that's the problem.

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LongHiker
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@Call Me Bruce 

You will need a 3rd party app to do OCR. 

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lrosenman
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I think Google just released one (stack) that might help.
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Still looking for someone who knows about this. No disrespect to the 2 who have posted but I don't believe they're familiar with the S21 and or just guessing. This is apparently something my phone should be able to do without downloading any kind of 3rd party app.

https://www.samsung.com/au/support/mobile-devices/scan-documents-on-samsung-phone/

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LongHiker
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@Call Me Bruce 

"Still looking for someone who knows about this. No disrespect to the 2 who have posted but I don't believe they're familiar with the S21 and or just guessing. "

The Scan document has been around for a while and it does not do OCR. It simply crops the picture to focus on the document. https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/your-galaxy-has-hidden-document-scanner-built-heres-works-021...