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Well look at that, it works!!
I've found circle to search on android can read both variations depending on how you select the image
Already defeated...
In selection 2, you don't seem to be selecting an image. You're selecting text.
In method 1, it's doing OCR. In method 2, its just reading the raw text data you selected. This is how you can copy text from thing A and Font A, and paste it into thing B with font B (depending on Thing B's paste settings)
Here’s the text my phone extracted from that image:
FUCK THE POUXCE
What does this say?
It says "THIN BLUE LINE."
The word BLUE is split between the second and third lines:
THIN
BLU
ELINE
•••
THIN
BLU
ELINEB*
Edge detection moment