Found it!
Best $999.00 I ever spent!
Posted on 09/01/2019 9:50:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Quickly finding photos by searching for specific words.. and you can even copy and paste text.
Scrolling through 2,567 photos to find the precise picture you want can be a nightmare. Now, a new feature in Google Photos will let you search for pictures that have text in them so you can quickly find what you're looking for. You can even copy and paste the text when you find it.
The new tool makes it easier to find a recipe you saved, a funny meme you screenshotted or your bank account number. You can also use it to pinpoint a photo that you took of a Wi-Fi password, business card or phone number.
Google Lens powers this search feature. The company's image-searching software is available in Google Photos for Android and iPhone ($999 at Amazon). It's still rolling out, however, so if you don't see it yet, keep checking daily (and make sure the app is updated).
(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...
All digital photos have metadata.
Nope, not all digital photos have metadata.
Regardless, this article refers to visual data in the image, not embedded metadata.
>>”All digital photos have metadata.”
Nope, not all digital photos have metadata<<
Well, they do but it is about the physical attributes of the contents (size, format, date taken, MAYBE GPS coordinates). not the content itself.
Metadata are data which describe data.
Found it!
Best $999.00 I ever spent!
There are apps that have been around a long time that allow you to erase metadata on your pics, or any other photo in your possession.
Yup
Looking at the code you can determine if the image has been photoshopped.
Islamic pricks hide messages in the code.
Q and others have been encouraging us to post memes on social media to get our conservative and anti deep state messages out in the public view. Up until now facebook and other social media have found it very difficult to block or shadow ban memes that run counter to their narrative because their software could not read the text in the memes. I wonder if censorship might be the true purpose of google’s new tool.
I was under the impression, too, that all digital photos do indeed contain EXIF data. I have an app that allows you to remove it and I’ve used it for certain photos I’ve posted at times.
I would never use Google Photos ever. It’s bad enough we are monitored in so many ways but giving Google more power, no way!
bttt
Ok, fair enough.
I've written code that saves pure bitmaps with no metadata. Just pure bitmaps with no encoding or compression. Some of that software is still in commercial use for dedicated hardware.
As soon as you introduce variable image dimensions/resolutions, or compression of some sort, then you need metadata to describe the size of the bitmap and/or the encoding technique in order to render the image in a frame buffer.
All popular image formats use some sort of compression, usually lossy. So, yep, almost all contain metadata of some sort. The technical metadata is required as part of the image. Contextual metadata (date, GPS, camera ID, thumbnail, etc) is not.
I use imgOptim to wipe all metadata out of any picture I post. There’s no metadata in screen caps.
It left out the “here’s how” part.
OCR is what I assume.
Sometimes. A good image manipulator looking to pull of fraud of some kind can alter the code.
I use google as often as facebook.
NSA is much better.
They’ll tell you the “how to” for a mere $999.
I’ll pass.
Can they ‘interpret’ flipping the bird?
Or going pew-pew with my finger and thumb?
I am due for digital amputation.
I will be a trans digital.
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