Digitizing insights from physical books just became effortless. The new Book Points AI shortcut uses Apple Intelligence to transform photos of book pages into concise, meaningful notes. This feature solves the problem of manually transcribing quotes and summaries, allowing you to quickly capture the essence of what you're reading and save it directly to your notes.
This release introduces the Book Points AI shortcut, a powerful workflow that streamlines the process of capturing information from physical books. When you run the shortcut, you can select multiple photos of book pages. The shortcut then uses the built-in Extract Text from Image action for each photo and sends the combined text to Apple Intelligence. A custom prompt instructs the AI to pull out the most meaningful quotes and key points, which are then automatically appended to a designated note in your Apple Notes app.
For best results, ensure the photos of your book pages are well-lit and the text is in sharp focus. Before using the shortcut for the first time, you may want to edit the Append to Note action to select a specific note where you want to collect your book points. By default, it's set to an existing note, but you can change this to any note you prefer or modify the action to create a new note each time.
The Book Points AI shortcut is a game-changer for anyone who reads physical books and wants to keep digital notes. By leveraging the power of on-device text recognition and Apple Intelligence, it transforms a tedious manual task into a fast, automated workflow. This allows you to build a digital library of your most important reading takeaways with minimal effort.