Dick Eastman's blog from August 23, 2019:  "...consider getting the Google Photos app on your Android or iPhone right now, because the service is about to get a super convenient feature."

“That’s optical character recognition (OCR), a feature that allows Google to read the text in photos and turn it into text that you can search for, and even copy and paste into documents. That’s a handy feature to have on a phone, especially if you find yourself taking lots of photos of things that contain plenty of text that you’d want to be able to access later.”