Live Text
E803605
Live Text is a macOS and iOS feature that uses on-device intelligence to recognize and interact with text in photos, screenshots, and live camera views.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Live Text canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9502604 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Live Text Context triple: [macOS Monterey, includedFeature, Live Text]
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A.
Living Videotext
Living Videotext was an early software company best known for developing pioneering outliner and scripting tools for personal computers in the 1980s.
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B.
Office Lens
Office Lens is a Microsoft mobile scanning app that captures documents, whiteboards, and other content with a device camera and converts them into editable, shareable digital files.
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C.
Images and Words
Images and Words is a landmark 1992 progressive metal album by Dream Theater, widely credited with bringing the band mainstream recognition and defining their signature sound.
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D.
Image-Music-Text
Image-Music-Text is a seminal collection of essays by Roland Barthes that explores the theory of signs and the relationships between images, music, and written language in modern culture.
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E.
Immersive Reader
Immersive Reader is a Microsoft tool that enhances reading comprehension and accessibility by simplifying page layouts, reading text aloud, and offering customizable reading preferences.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Live Text Target entity description: Live Text is a macOS and iOS feature that uses on-device intelligence to recognize and interact with text in photos, screenshots, and live camera views.
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A.
Living Videotext
Living Videotext was an early software company best known for developing pioneering outliner and scripting tools for personal computers in the 1980s.
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B.
Office Lens
Office Lens is a Microsoft mobile scanning app that captures documents, whiteboards, and other content with a device camera and converts them into editable, shareable digital files.
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C.
Images and Words
Images and Words is a landmark 1992 progressive metal album by Dream Theater, widely credited with bringing the band mainstream recognition and defining their signature sound.
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D.
Image-Music-Text
Image-Music-Text is a seminal collection of essays by Roland Barthes that explores the theory of signs and the relationships between images, music, and written language in modern culture.
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E.
Immersive Reader
Immersive Reader is a Microsoft tool that enhances reading comprehension and accessibility by simplifying page layouts, reading text aloud, and offering customizable reading preferences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer vision feature
ⓘ
software feature ⓘ |
| allows |
calling detected phone numbers
ⓘ
email address detection in images ⓘ opening detected URLs ⓘ phone number detection in images ⓘ sending email to detected addresses ⓘ text copying from images ⓘ text lookup from images ⓘ text pasting from images ⓘ text selection in images ⓘ text sharing from images ⓘ text translation from images ⓘ website link detection in images ⓘ |
| announcedAt | Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021 ⓘ |
| category |
accessibility feature
ⓘ
productivity feature ⓘ |
| developedBy | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| featureOf |
Camera app
ⓘ
Finder Quick Look ⓘ
linked to:
Quick Look
Photos app ⓘ Preview app ⓘ
linked to:
Preview
Quick Look ⓘ Safari ⓘ Screenshot interface ⓘ |
| inputType |
live camera view
ⓘ
photos ⓘ screenshots ⓘ |
| integratedWith |
system data detectors
ⓘ
system-wide text selection ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
iOS 15
ⓘ
iPadOS 15 ⓘ
linked to:
iPadOS
macOS Monterey ⓘ |
| introductionYear | 2021 ⓘ |
| marketingNameOf | Apple on-device OCR feature ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
iOS
ⓘ
iPadOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| platformRequirement | Apple silicon or recent A-series chips ⓘ |
| privacyProperty | designed to avoid sending image data to remote servers for recognition ⓘ |
| processingLocation | on device ⓘ |
| supports | multiple languages ⓘ |
| supportsContext | paused video frames in some apps ⓘ |
| uses |
machine learning
ⓘ
on-device intelligence ⓘ optical character recognition ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Live Text Description of subject: Live Text is a macOS and iOS feature that uses on-device intelligence to recognize and interact with text in photos, screenshots, and live camera views.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.