is there any launcher out there which has got offline OCR support in recents like the Pixel Launcher? Not talking about the Google lens implementation in recents menu here. I uninstalled the Google App from my phone using SD Maid. The custom rom I use(EvolutionX) does have launcher3 as its default(basically identical to Pixel launcher in every aspect, just without that Select/OCR in recents menu, and its got a bit more customisability since it’s open source), but being able to select images/text right from the recents menu without having to connect to the internet was something that I found to be a really powerful tool. miss having it handy whenever I needed it…

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    1 year ago

    That isn’t a launcher specific functionality. It’s the recent menu on Pixel phones and I guess it should be a part of Android 13, but it might be locked to Pixel phones right now. I’m using a custom launcher on my Pixel 7 Pro and I still have access to the OCR functionality in the recents menu.

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      1 year ago

      I’m also using a custom launcher and a Pixel 7a, and have always had the ability to copy the text from app previews in recents. I only learned the other day that this was Pixel exclusive, I hadn’t heard it was supposed to be launcher exclusive.

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      1 year ago

      if it was locked to pixels specifically, devs would’ve been able to implement it into mods like Pixelify which ports over all Pixel exclusive features, but i don’t really know…

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        1 year ago

        I would guess it should be possible. Unfortunately I’m not really active in the modding community these days, so I cannot really recommend anything. It’s quite annoying with these Pixel locked features :-\