Documents and text in photos
Frameleaf reads the text in your photos: receipts, signs, letters, screenshots, anything with words in it. You can search by that text, copy it, and correct it where it was misread.
The Documents view
Section titled “The Documents view”Documents, under Explore in the sidebar, lists your photos that show text. A photo is listed because of the text read from it. The search box finds photos by that text, or by your own corrections to it.
Text in photos is also part of the main search.
Text in this photo
Section titled “Text in this photo”Open a photo and its Info panel ends with Text in this photo. It shows:
- the text as it reads now
- Show text regions, which draws where each line is on the photo
- Select text and Copy text
Review a photo’s text
Section titled “Review a photo’s text”If the photo is yours, you can also review its text:
| Action | What it does |
|---|---|
| Correct | Fix a line that was misread. Your correction is kept beside the recognised text, never over it, so the original reading stays on record |
| Dismiss | Hide a line that’s just noise. Restore brings it back |
| Show where | Points at the line on the photo. Hovering over or focusing a line does the same |
| Read text again | Runs text recognition on this photo again |
Read text again uses the text recognition destination your administrator chose. If text recognition is switched off, or no destination is chosen, it tells you so instead of sending the photo anywhere.
People you share the photo with see the text with your corrections applied and without the lines you dismissed. Only you see your review itself.
When the photo changes
Section titled “When the photo changes”- Read again. Your corrections follow the line that now covers the same place in the photo. If the new reading differs from the text you corrected, the line says so. A correction whose text has gone entirely is kept as your own text.
- Cropped. Text that a crop removes is no longer read, listed or searchable, and your corrections to it are hidden while the crop hides it. Search on a cropped photo only matches its visible text and values you typed yourself. Remove the crop and it all comes back.
- Locked. A Locked photo’s text is part of the photo. It’s listed and readable only while your session is unlocked, and locking again clears it from the list and from an open Info panel.
Suggested details
Section titled “Suggested details”If your administrator turns on Suggest receipt and document fields (in the OCR part of the machine learning settings, off by default), the panel suggests details read from the photo’s text:
- a date
- a total
- a reference
- an email address
- a phone number
A suggestion is only what the text says. It shows where it was read and how confident the recognition was, and it’s never treated as a verified record: a clearly read “12.50” can still be the wrong total, and the order of day and month in a date isn’t guessed.
For each suggestion you can:
- Confirm it, or pick one of the Other readings
- Correct it to your own value
- Dismiss it
- Reset your decision so the suggestion shows again
Changes on two devices
Section titled “Changes on two devices”Every change you make is checked against the version of the text you were looking at. If the photo was read again, or you changed the same line on another device in the meantime, your change is refused, the panel reloads, and nothing is overwritten. Make the change again on the fresh text.
Preservation
Section titled “Preservation”Your corrections travel with your photos in a preservation package, and are restored where your library has none of its own.