{"id":8905,"date":"2024-06-03T13:08:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T17:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=10467"},"modified":"2024-06-03T19:33:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T23:33:25","slug":"quickly-catalog-books-or-other-named-items-on-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/quickly-catalog-books-or-other-named-items-on-shelves\/","title":{"rendered":"Quickly Catalog Books or Other Named Items on Shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have trouble finding particular items across multiple shelves of books, labeled boxes, or anything else that\u2019s clearly identified with a text name, take carefully composed photos that capture all the titles without glare. Later, you can search for any text in those photos to find them\u2014tap the Search button in Photos on the iPhone or iPad, or use the Search field in Photos on the Mac. Photos highlights the search term on the found photo. (If Photos on the Mac doesn\u2019t surface an expected photo, try again on your iPhone, which seems to get more hits on harder-to-read text.) This capability comes courtesy of Apple\u2019s Live Text feature, which uses machine learning to identify text in photos. Think of it as the lazy person\u2019s database!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10459\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/quickly-catalog-books-or-other-named-items-on-shelves-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"635\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image by Adam Engst)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have trouble finding particular items across multiple shelves of books, labeled boxes, or anything else that\u2019s clearly identified with a text name, take carefully composed photos that capture all the titles without glare. Later, you can search for any text in those photos to find them\u2014tap the Search button in Photos on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,880,8,25,112,185,384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-ipad","category-iphone","category-mac","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8919,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions\/8919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}