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> Meanwhile Apple has been sort of lethargic. If by lethargic you mean OCR of every single image on my computer so I can copy and paste text from anything, all running locally on the NPU on my M1 chip, then lethargic is A-OK. That's what Apple does: they ship useful features. We'll see tomorrow if they fall in the trap and run in this race to nowhere.
>OCR of every single image on my computer so I can copy and paste text from anything, all running locally on the NPU on my M1 chip This functionality is baked into Windows since 10. But for some reason you need a third party program to expose it. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.media.ocr?... https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab
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