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by rhettbull 823 days ago
For macOS users, I'm the author of Textinator [0] a similar utility for macOS that uses Apple's Vision framework [1] for doing the OCR natively. Modern versions of macOS (since Sonoma) have a similar ability to copy text from images using the Live Text feature [2] but Textinator works on macOS Catalina and later and simplifies the "take screenshot, copy text to clipboard" workflow. It's also an example of how to build a native macOS app entirely in Python.

[0]: https://github.com/RhetTbull/textinator

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision?language=ob...

[2]: https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/interact-with-text-i...