Google Photos Can Now Search for Text in Your Image Library

Google Photos users will be able to look for specific text when trying to find something inside the library.

If you have an Android, chances are that you’re already using Google Photos. It’s an application that fulfills a large number of functions, as a library, an image viewer, and so much more. It also integrates a few other Google services, including Lens.

Google Lens is a very useful function that lets people point the camera at anything and get helpful information about that object, landmark, and so on. It also works inside the Google Photos library to a smaller degree.

Let’s say you need to find a particular photo and you know that you took it at the beach. Just search for “beach” and only those photos are going to be displayed.

Looking for text

Another interesting feature is the option to scan documents and save them to Google Photos. Now, Google revealed that users would be able to look for text, and the Lens function will be able to rea...