Extracting Text From Images With Live Text on a Mac

hi this is Gary with macmost.com let's take a look at using the live text feature in Mac OS [Music] macmost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than a thousand supporters go to macmost.com patreon there you could read more about the patreon campaign join us and get exclusive content and course discounts so live taxes the name Apple gives to a feature where you can get text from an image so the idea is it's a real image it's not a PDF or anything like that where the text is actually there it's just pixels in the image like an image you took with your camera so for instance in preview here I've opened up the image called treasure.jpg and I can zoom in here and I could see that you know these are pixels here so this isn't text this is just a photograph of a page of text and with live text I can get the text from this now it works in a variety of different situations so for instance and if I move my pointer over the text notice how it changes to a text cursor and I can actually click and drag and select text I can select all of it I can select just a few words whatever I want when it's selected like that I can use edit copy or command C to copy the text then I can go to another app say text edit here and use edit paste or command V to paste the text in so that's the basic idea and you can see it working here in preview it's not a feature of preview it's a feature of the operating system and in fact one Pitfall to be careful of is if you go into edit the image here in preview and then you switch to one of the image editing tools like the selection tool now you just be selecting pixels in the image