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macOCR - macOCR is a command line app that enables you to turn any text on your screen into text on your clipboard. When you envoke the ocr command, a "screen capture" like cursor is shown. Any text within the bounds will be converted to text.

You can install it w/ brew install schappim/ocr/ocr

[1] https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

Mac only but I am a happy user and can recommend

https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

Just rediscovered the Shortcuts a couple days ago while installing it on a friend's mac.

Introducing macOCR - a command line tool that revolutionizes how you capture text on your screen!

With just one command, you can instantly convert any text on your screen into text on your clipboard, making it easy to use in any app or program. Plus, with support for popular launcher apps like Alfred, LaunchBar, and Hammerspoon, it's never been easier to access the power of macOCR.

And if you're feeling really advanced, you can even use it to feed data into an OpenAI large language model for advanced text processing.

Upgrade your text capture game with macOCR today!

Price: $0

MRR: $0

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URL: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

https://github.com/schappim/macOCR - macOCR is a command line app that enables you to turn any text on your screen into text on your clipboard. When you envoke the ocr command, a "screen capture" like cursor is shown. Any text within the bounds will be converted to text.

You could invoke the app using the likes of Alfred.app, LaunchBar, Hammerspoon, Quicksilver, Raycast etc.

I like to pump the content into an OpenAI large language model (for example, grabbing receipt data).

Pretty insane. If you don’t want to use iPhones, I made macOCR a while back. It uses the same vision APIs, with a very simple CLI interface. See: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

macOCR, a tool to get any text on your screen into your clipboard.

It could be an image, some app or website that has disabled text selection, a pdf, image based email signature etc. I made this for myself, copying text out of everything, it turns out a few other people also like it...

https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

FYI if you’re on a Mac, I’ve made this similar tool: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

- State Rural Fire Service App (showing maps, warnings, and alerts)

- App for our national airline

- EPG and remote recording app for cable company

- MacOCR command line app: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

I use macOCR[1] from the terminal for that.

[1]: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

I made macOCR[1], it is an app that I used for years to make office work easier.

It is a command line app that enables you to turn any text on your screen into text on your clipboard. When you envoke the ocr command, a "screen capture" like cursor is shown. Any text within the bounds will be converted to text.

You could invoke the app using the likes of Alfred.app, LaunchBar, Hammerspoon, Quicksilver, Raycast etc.

I only released it to the world when I swapped the backend out from being Google Vision to Apple's built-in OCR APIs.

I also made a "life management" app marcusOS [2], that does all the usual things you'd expect.

[1] https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

[2] https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/cdn.amplifier.app/Sh...