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Apple Photos has already OCR'd all photos when creating its search index. Strictly not full OCR, but it has scanned for words in each photo.

Do a few searches in Photos for common words (like 'and' and 'the') and open the Text Found in Photos section.

With a bit more research (trial and error) a search for 'text' seems to find'text found' finds all photos where there is some text - even if only a little bit.

You could then create an album called, say, "Text" and drag the photos from each search into it. That should collect nearly all the photos with text.

The above is with macOS 14.2.1. Older versions may have less text searching functionality.

Apple Photos has already OCR'd all photos when creating its search index. Strictly not full OCR, but it has scanned for words in each photo.

Do a few searches in Photos for common words (like 'and' and 'the') and open the Text Found in Photos section.

With a bit more research (trial and error) a search for 'text' seems to find all photos where there is some text - even if only a little bit.

You could then create an album called, say, "Text" and drag the photos from each search into it. That should collect nearly all the photos with text.

The above is with macOS 14.2.1. Older versions may have less text searching functionality.

Apple Photos has already OCR'd all photos when creating its search index. Strictly not full OCR, but it has scanned for words in each photo.

Do a few searches in Photos for common words (like 'and' and 'the') and open the Text Found in Photos section.

With a bit more research (trial and error) a search for 'text found' finds all photos where there is some text - even if only a little bit.

You could then create an album called, say, "Text" and drag the photos from each search into it. That should collect nearly all the photos with text.

The above is with macOS 14.2.1. Older versions may have less text searching functionality.

Caveat re macOS version.
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Apple Photos has already OCR'd all photos when creating its search index. Strictly not full OCR, but it has scanned for words in each photo.

Do a few searches in Photos for common words (like 'and' and 'the') and open the Text Found in Photos section.

With a bit more research (trial and error) a search for 'text' seems to find all photos where there is some text - even if only a little bit.

You could then create an album called, say, "Text" and drag the photos from each search into it. That should collect nearly all the photos with text.

The above is with macOS 14.2.1. Older versions may have less text searching functionality.

Apple Photos has already OCR'd all photos when creating its search index. Strictly not full OCR, but it has scanned for words in each photo.

Do a few searches in Photos for common words (like 'and' and 'the') and open the Text Found in Photos section.

You could then create an album called, say, "Text" and drag the photos from each search into it. That should collect nearly all the photos with text.

Apple Photos has already OCR'd all photos when creating its search index. Strictly not full OCR, but it has scanned for words in each photo.

Do a few searches in Photos for common words (like 'and' and 'the') and open the Text Found in Photos section.

With a bit more research (trial and error) a search for 'text' seems to find all photos where there is some text - even if only a little bit.

You could then create an album called, say, "Text" and drag the photos from each search into it. That should collect nearly all the photos with text.

The above is with macOS 14.2.1. Older versions may have less text searching functionality.

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Gilby
  • 12.1k
  • 1
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  • 36

Apple Photos has already OCR'd all photos when creating its search index. Strictly not full OCR, but it has scanned for words in each photo.

Do a few searches in Photos for common words (like 'and' and 'the') and open the Text Found in Photos section.

You could then create an album called, say, "Text" and drag the photos from each search into it. That should collect nearly all the photos with text.