How Do You Filter Telegram Messages That Are Published as Screenshots?

What it does

The text found inside the image is joined to the message, and from that point everything treats it as part of the message: keyword lists see it, length limits count it, replacements can rewrite it, a translation can translate it.

The order matters and it is the reason this works: the reading happens before the filters, not after. A rule that keeps only messages mentioning a particular instrument will now keep the screenshot that mentions it, and drop the one that does not.

What you can do once the words exist

Each of those is a separate switch: reading the image does not force any of them on.

• Filter screenshots by keyword, exactly like text messages.
• Add the extracted text under the image, so the destination is searchable later.
• Translate what a foreign-language screenshot says.
• Feed it to the plain-language content filter, which can then judge a picture it could not judge before.

What it will not do

• It reads text, not meaning: a chart with no words on it produces nothing.
• Very large images are skipped rather than processed, and the skip is reported distinctly from a lack of credit so the two are not confused.
• Long extractions are capped: a screenshot of an entire article gives back the substance, not every word. The cap is also what keeps the cost sane.
• The image itself is never altered. Only the message text is extended.

Cost, and what happens without credit

Reading images is charged per image against your AI credit, and it is the most expensive of the AI steps because an image costs more to process than a sentence. Switch it on for sources that genuinely publish in pictures, not for every rule.

When the credit runs out the message is still relayed, with the image intact and no extracted text. Nothing is lost; the filters simply go back to seeing an empty message, which is where they were before.

Which plans include it

It is part of the AI features, which belong to the Platinum plan and are not in the 7-day trial. The plan comparison is on the pricing page.