Inform HN: iOS converts items for highlighted textual content

2023-04-26 22:08:55

This is very useful, thank you for sharing. Not sure how much longer it would have taken me to discover it if it wasn’t for your sharing 🙂

I have found the text recognition to be surprisingly mediocre. Even when the text is from a screenshot taken on the device, it often makes mistakes. Worst of all, it is overconfident and the text capture icon pops up all the time, leading me to think it will save time to copy/paste instead of trying to remember a string. I wish it knew its limitations a bit better.

Not the most useful thing in the world if one lives outside the US. The ‘conversions’ offered to me where:
450 g is “450 Grams” and “0.45 kilograms”

Yea ok.