Pixel phones can clearly extract text from photos on-device, as Gboard shows. But Google Photos hands this task off to Google Lens, making users upload photos to Google just to copy text.
This video captures how differently Google and Apple think about privacy:
So on a Pixel 9 with Android 17, there’s no way to copy text from a photo offline and without sending it to Google?
All these AI features on Pixel phones and basic OCR still can’t run locally?