I’ve been using it for a while now on my Pixel and I gotta say it’s actually really useful, you can copy text from anywhere, even apps that normally won’t let you (both intentionally blocked and unintentionally) copy/select text

And the easy “translate what’s on my screen” functionality has been really good on Lemmy when I come across the random German memes lmao

The actual search function also comes in handy when I want to reverse search an image from an app, but the app won’t let me save it. It’s nice to skip a step or 2.

That being said, since it’s actually good I now expect it to be nerfed and/or abandoned in about 6 months

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    13 days ago

    Do you know if there’s a FOSS project that does any of this? Android does provide a screen capture API, and there are some FOSS OCR and translation apps separately, bit I don’t know of one that combines these things.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      13 days ago

      Not sure what CtS is using, but I don’t think it’s the normal screen capture API, because it works in apps that block screenshots

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      13 days ago

      I use this with Translate You - it requires sharing a screen grab (no different than circle to search). There are some settings and downloads necessary in the app to do it, but I use it on a somewhat regular basis.

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