• Kelly@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    On android I take a screenshot and use the lens tool in my photos app.

    The screenshot tool has a lens feature too but that one only offers opening the link while photos with let me copy the URL without sending it to my browser.

    In this case it is: https://watchdominion.org/

    Lens is also good for OCR with built in copy to clipboard and translation features. As you can screenshot most apps or take a photo of a sign, letter, gift card, etc. it can be a handy little tool.

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      4 months ago

      my photos app doesn’t do that for some reason, when i use lens it just recognizes the qr and searches for qr code images. it’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.

      edit: after your comment i also tried launching the lens app directly (rather than using lens from photos) and pick the image rather than using a camera, and that works. so google has two versions of lens on my phone that act differently. brilliant.