Blown Away by Spotlight

[AppleNooble]

I have to say, I took photos of pages of a book the other day. I started googling whether there is a way to do text recognition and the answer was to just use Spotlight. So I tried it and it exceeded all my expectations. Simple to use, fast, easy to access. Just wow. Totally blown away. I can't believe this isn't advertised as a feature more often. Every OS should have it.

 

[gilby101]

And pictorial content of images.

iPhone and iPad do it too.

But macOS Spotlight is dilatory in getting round to doing the indexing. Sonoma and Ventura 13.5+ seem to take up to a week to index image content for new or moved images.

 

[AppleNooble]

Yer, I found out about it through my iPad. It indexed really quickly for me. Well, I started trying to do text recognition the following day after taking the photos. It was done by then. + the iPad was switched off for most of that day. So it seemed almost instantaneous.