Google seems to be running OCR on photos in my Gmail. Is this happening to you too?
This morning I was asked to find an archived email with photos of some scientific equipment. I searched "Powerlab," the name of one of the instruments, in gmail, and the email came right up....
This morning I was asked to find an archived email with photos of some scientific equipment. I searched "Powerlab," the name of one of the instruments, in gmail, and the email came right up. Great! But then I noticed that the word "powerlab" never appeared in the text of the email. I tried searching "ML206", an arbitrary character string from one of the photos in the email, and again, the email appeared in the search, without the search phrase highlighted in the search result, as it normally would be. I tried different phrases from jpgs in emails; not all yielded search results but some did.
I'm not happy about this. I accept some compromises to privacy when using Gmail, but sending text as an image can be a way of specifically avoiding information being harvested. All I ask for is a way to turn it off.
Can anyone replicate this? Did anyone already know about this?
12th gen Intel; whichever one was the cheapest. I'm using EndeavourOS with KDE. For expansion ports, I've got x2 USB-A, x1 USB-C, and an HDMI. I have a second USB-C and an SD card reader which I don't carry around with me.
Honestly I've been kindof dissatisfied with my Framework laptop. Battery life is just terrible, even by linux standards. I cannot get hardware video acceleration to work in most applications. The screen resolution is too high, and per-monitor scaling isn't available on a lot of distros (I often plug in an external monitor), so I'm just having to use a lower resolution and deal with black bars on the top and bottom. Proton half-works. I also am getting the issue where the trackpad sends 2000+ interrupts per second whenever I touch the trackpad.
I have tried and tried to solve these problems, with dozens of posts to the framework forum, at least two linux distro forums, even my web browser forum. I simply can't fix them. It's getting to the point where I'm starting to think it's a hardware problem; I may ask for a warranty claim, or change this computer out for like a System76 computer.