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So if you’re using Mastodon on the web, you can press the ⚠️ALT button and then follow the “Detect text from picture” link.

On Mac/iOS, you can select text on images as if they were text by clicking/tapping and dragging and paste that in (might be more accurate; that’s what I did).

PS. This was meant to be a reply to mastodon.social/@fatbrit/11421… but somehow didn’t get threaded correctly (was using the web client instead of Mona. I somehow manage to do that there sometimes. Has happened before.) 😀

#altText #fediTips #detectFromPicture #OCR

Screenshot of Mastodon posting interface showing a picture being added with the ALT button and Detect text from picture link highlighted.

Fatbrit

2025-03-24 06:29:49

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@aral @lordmatt how did you generate all that alt text from an image? Did you manually type it?

#FediTips #alttext #ocr #detectfrompicture
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Pixy's Journey
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Good tip. 😊
But... Was it your intention to share the image without adding alt text? 😉
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Aral Balkan
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@PixysJourney Haha, yeah, forgot. And also, it’s meant to be a reply but somehow didn’t get threaded (I don’t use the web interface often); I’m mostly on Mona.
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Hihi no worries. It made me giggle to read a Toot about adding alt text adding, and then it not having any alt text itself. 😉
Hopefully you can get it sorted. Yay for the edit options! 😁
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Aral Balkan
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@PixysJourney Haha, yeah. Already sorted (caught it some seconds after sending it but you were faster) 😀
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