# Changelog of Google Lens OCR — Image to Text & Word Boxes (`sian.agency/google-lens-data-scraper`) Actor

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## Changelog

### 2026-10-15

#### 🔤 Google Lens OCR — Launch

- **Image to text** — read one public HTTPS image containing visible text.
- **Recognized text** — export the non-empty text in one image record.
- **Word boxes** — preserve available paragraph, sentence and word structures.
- **Language and counts** — inspect detected language and text length.
- **Image preview** — compare the source image with its recognized text.

#### 💎 User Benefits

- Researchers can export image text to JSON, CSV or Excel.
- Editors can inspect words before quoting an image.
- Images without recognized text have no OCR-image charge.

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- Researchers archiving screenshot text.
- Developers inspecting word-position data.
- Operations teams sending recognized text to spreadsheets.