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Use live text in several applications

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Use live text in several applications

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- [Narrator] In this video, we will see a feature that is available in several applications and it's called Live Text. MacOS is able to recognize text inside of pictures so you can copy and paste that text or translate it or access contact information. But before we do this, I want to go to the system menu in the top left and go to about this Mac. And I want to see what type of processor chip I have in my computer. Live Text is only available on a Mac that has a processor made by apple. That's the M1 processor or newer. If you have an Intel processor, this feature will not be available. So with that in mind, let's go to the photos application. And I have a picture here that was taken at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva. And the computer is able to recognize the text on this sign. So when I put my mouse cursor over the text, you'll see it changes to this text cursor. And I can even drag across that text to…

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