TextMan
Select, detect, and paste
TextMan launched on July 1, 2022 with 53 votes, #742 of 2,916 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.
What it does
Select a region of your screen by creating a rectangle with your mouse and get all text inside of it detected instantly by OCR. The text is put into your clipboard so that you can paste it with CMD+V everywhere.
Never get annoyed by non-selectable text on websites, PDFs, images or system user interfaces again. Select, detect and paste.
Never get annoyed by not selectable text on websites*, PDFs, images, videos or system user interfaces again. Just select the region of your screen in the same manner as you would take a screenshot and find all recognized text in your clipboard ready to get pasted anywhere. All processing is done locally. This app contains no tracking or analyzing frameworks. No data is shared. *This is a one time purchase with no recurring payments. If you are not satisfied, you can get your money back for 7 days. Select any text on your screen by drawing a rectangle to start OCR detection*. Use it with web sites, PDFs, videos, and images. Basically anything that is text and is on your screen. See the…from textman.io
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