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by dmitrygr 598 days ago
This is built into the OS itself. I don’t get it. What am I missing? I can select text in any image or screenshot seamlessly and very accurately, for $0.00 up front and $0.00 per month.
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Native OS is limited to a few apps, so not seamless?
Screenshots auto-do OCR and you can screenshot anything.
Yes, screenshots is one of those apps, but it's not seamless: seamless "auto-do OCR" is selecting an area on the screen and getting text in your clipboard without other side effects. So no extra screenshot files created, no need to navigate another interface to select text in the screenshot