TextSniper is an easy-to-use desktop Mac OCR app that can extract and recognize any non-searchable and non-editable text on your Mac's screen. As an extra feature, it can turn OCR text into speech. It is a super convenient alternative to complicated optical character recognition tools.
The tool is intuitive to use and makes extracting text from your images, scanned paper documents, PDFs, or even videos simple and easy. No training or special skills required, fits perfectly home and business mac users. Easily accessible from the menu bar whenever you need it and has a simple user interface.
If you ever have used a built-in mac's screen capture application before, then it wouldn't be any trouble to work with TextSniper too. Select with a mouse any part of an image, photo, PDF document, or anything on your screen, and the app will process and recognize any text within this selection. The text output will be saved into a clipboard, so you could paste it into your favorite macOS text editing or note-taking software.
Finally, the app's optical character recognition engine doesn't need an internet connection to process documents. Great OCR solution for those who are concerned about privacy. The application does not collect any users' data.
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For OCR of any PDF (or frozen hard-to-read jpg), I use the $12 forever TextSniper (https://textsniper.app). Source: 12 months ago
I use a Mac, but here's an example of software I use that can take a screenshot and read them to me: https://textsniper.app. Source: about 1 year ago
The guy literally mentions the software he uses for that in the video. It's called TextSniper. The underlying technology is called optical character recognition (or OCR for short). Source: about 1 year ago
He mentions it in the video the first time he does it. He's using a program called TextSniper. https://textsniper.app/. Source: about 1 year ago
For me, it is still Raycast for productivity, TextSniper for copying text from videos , and Magnet for windows arrangement. Source: about 1 year ago
Many MacOS users don’t know that, in almost all applications, 'Command + ?' opens the Help menu and immediately focuses a search field that allows the user to search and activate any menu command. An additional non-native but amazing (and free!) application is Shortcat (https://shortcat.app/). Among other amazing abilities, Shortcat lets the user access parts of the current application’s GUI that may not be... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
MacOS actually does better in this area of keyboardless software: you have https://www.homerow.app/ and https://shortcat.app/. Not sure about linux, but I would imagine that the home of OS hackers would have something similar. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
If you're on Mac try shortcat - it's solved most mouse issues for me. I use a mouse now <5% of tasks and keyboard shortcuts for the rest. Https://shortcat.app/. Source: 12 months ago
As you may or may not know, there's an app called Shortcat for Mac, which is amazingly cool: it allows you to navigate the "whole" UI using the keyboard (something like Vimium in the browser, but for all the "normal" windows). Source: 12 months ago
Does anyone have experience with both Shortcat (https://shortcat.app/) and Homerow (https://www.homerow.app/) to make a comparison? - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
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