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Work · October 22, 2020

Text recognition tool I missed a lot for macOS

MacOS productivity app that allows quickly capture and recognize text from your screen. Easiest to use mac OCR software for extracting text from images, PDFs, presentations, online meetings and even videos

Text recognition tool I missed a lot for macOS launched on October 22, 2020 with 5 votes, #1,553 of 4,018 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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What it does

Instantly capture non-selectable text from YouTube videos, PDFs, images, online courses, screencasts, presentations, webpages, video tutorials, photos, etc. It's so simple and easy as taking a screenshot with a built-in snipping tool for Mac. Press CMD+Shift+2 to start or select Capture Text from the menu bar. The text inside the selection will be quickly recognized and copied to the clipboard. Press CMD+V to paste a text to the notes, editor, messenger, or any other software. Capture, extract, and convert to text any QR code or barcode in a snap. You can have TextSniper make Mac read text from image whenever you need it. A worthy addition for foreign language learners or people who have…from textsniper.app

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