Anyone having luck with Grab Image Text in Keep Notes?

[Tritonemusic]

I haven't been able to get OCR to work ever since my original Pixel XL. Cannot get it to recognize text at all on my Pixel 3 XL. I'm specifically referring to Google Keep Notes' implementation of this. Used to be lightning fast; now, it just shows a spinning wheel that never stops spinning.

Is it working for any of you?

Thanks.

P.S. I know there are other apps that can do this, but Keep used to do it just fine, and I'd like to avoid installing another app.

 

[GSDer]

I don't even see an option to grab image text. Where do you see this option, setting or feature?
Edit: never mind - found the option and selected it from a perfectly readable picture but just got the same spinning wheel. Left it running for 5 minutes but no joy.
Since I never saw it before today I can't compare it to a working scenario; sorry. Pixel 2 XL running March Security update.

 

[Kizzy Catwoman]

I was able to get it to recognise text on a plaque on my wall. It highlighted and copied to a keep note. So seems to work Pixel 2XL on Pie March security patch.

 

[Tritonemusic]

Okay, so far we have two Pixel 2 XL's with March security patch. One works, one doesn't. My Pixel 3 XL (March security patch) doesn't work. Thanks a lot for chiming in, you two. I certainly appreciate it.

By the way, I've tried taking pictures, downloading text, emailing images with text to myself, tried different kinds of files, etc. Nothing seems to work anymore.

 

[GSDer]

Go figure - I just updated the Keep application to 5.19.091.04.40 (oddly enough update date is March 5th) and Grab Image Text actually worked. I had to try it twice; the second time I saw the 'Image text grabbed' toast; the first time, within about 5 seconds, the spinning wheel went away and there was a toast showing 'Can't recognize text'. Oddly enough, a couple of times when this happened and I selected the picture again, the 'Grab image text' option was missing from the three-dot menu.
Anyway, I tried pictures of plain text (black-on-white) and from a magazine and had reasonable success with both, although I ended up having to turn a light on to get the magazine photo to work. YMMV.