{"id":484119,"date":"2023-03-16T11:38:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T09:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=484119"},"modified":"2023-03-16T11:54:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T09:54:02","slug":"whatsapp-adds-text-detection-feature-for-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/484119-whatsapp-adds-text-detection-feature-for-images.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp adds text detection feature for images"},"content":{"rendered":"

WhatsApp has started rolling out a new feature to its iOS app that can recognise and extract text from images, WABetaInfo reports<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Meta Platforms-owned online chat platform previously enabled the feature for certain users of the WhatsApp for iOS beta app in early January 2023.<\/p>\n

With the latest official release on the Apple App Store \u2014 version 23.5.77 \u2014 general users can now also use the feature.<\/p>\n

Image-based text detection is supported through an API on iOS 16, the latest version of Apple’s iPhone operating system.<\/p>\n

In Apple’s own apps, the feature is called Live Text, and allows for recognising information within the camera viewfinder, photos, videos, and images on the Internet.<\/p>\n

Users who have installed the WhatsApp update can open an image containing text and copy its contents to a text file or app.<\/p>\n

In addition, they will also be able to “Look Up” and “Translate” all the text or selected parts of it.<\/p>\n

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This screenshot from WABetaInfo shows the new features in the latest version of WhatsApp for iOS and how the text detection feature works<\/p><\/div>\n

The feature is not supported for “view once” images to protect user privacy.<\/p>\n

The latest WhatsApp iOS update also added the ability to create status updates from a voice note and picture-in-picture video support, allowing users to multitask while on video calls.<\/p>\n

WhatsApp for Android does not currently support text detection in images, although Android parent Google offers two APIs that enable the capability \u2014 Cloud Vision and ML KIT Text Recognition.<\/p>\n

It’s possible that these APIs do not meet WhatsApp’s requirements for protecting privacy, like full end-to-end encryption, or that it simply has not got around to integrating the Android API.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Apple Watch gets ChatGPT app<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Image-based text detection is supported through an API on iOS 16, the latest version of Apple’s operating system for iPhones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":465377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[691,77862,48152,57456,2594],"class_list":["post-484119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-iphones","tag-wabetainfo","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484167,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484119\/revisions\/484167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}