Google Photos can identify text in images

Google Lens' OCR – previously already able to identify objects in photos – now allows users to search their photos based on text embedded in the image or even convert that text into editable digital text. — Google

Google Lens now lets users copy words found in photos and transform them into editable text, and also search images by text, using its optical character recognition (OCR).

With the feature, users no longer have to memorise tricky cafe WiFi passwords and can simply deploy OCR to make short work of copying and pasting the password into their phones, for example.