I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen

In plain words

This free Mac application lets users extract text from anything visible on their screen using optical character recognition (OCR). Available since 2021 and hosted on GitHub, it's designed for anyone who needs to quickly digitize text from images, screenshots, or on-screen content without manual typing. The tool integrates directly into the Mac workflow, making text capture from visual sources straightforward and efficient.

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