Will Live Text read our PDFs?
THERE’S MORE TO Live Text than meets the eye. Although normally seen at work in its quick mode interactively recognizing snippets of text in our photos, it can also work more slowly and accurately. That’s been built into a new generation of third–party apps to perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on scans and images of printed documents.
For the moment, macOS doesn’t appear to use this to automatically extractbe quietly turned into text you can search with Spotlight.