![]() (I’d like to see an option to have it display a notification that, when clicked, opened detected URLs in your default Web browser, just as QR code scanning does on the iPhone.) It can also tap into macOS’s Continuity Camera feature to use an iPhone or iPad to take a photo, scan a document, or add a sketch (see “ How to Take Photos and Scan Documents with Continuity Camera in Mojave,” 27 September 2018). It can also read QR codes and barcodes, putting the detected text on the Clipboard. TextSniper offers a few conceptually related features as well. ![]() For those who work in fields with domain-specific jargon, there’s even a preference screen for adding custom words to the OCR engine’s standard lexicon. If you want more feedback about what you copied, a Text to Speech option reads the copied text. An Additive Clipboard option lets you keep adding bits of text to the Clipboard, which could be particularly useful when extracting the text from a video or slide presentation. You don’t have to replace the contents of the Clipboard on every copy. Choose Capture Text from its menu bar-collection of commands or press its keyboard shortcut, select an area of the screen that contains text, and then paste the text into a document. You can think of it as taking a screenshot of just the text in an image. Its core function, as I noted, is to perform OCR on any part of the Mac screen on which text appears, copying the selected text to the Clipboard for pasting wherever you want. TextSniper is an elegant little utility for the Mac. Both work well, within the constraints of OCR engines, and provide welcome features. And Alco Blom’s Photos Search offers both Mac and iOS apps that perform OCR on text found in photos in your Photos library, enabling you to find images by the text they contain and copy that text out. TextSniper, from Andrejs and Valerijs Boguckis, promises to perform optical character recognition (OCR) on anything around which you can draw a rectangle, in essence, letting you copy text from onscreen images of any sort. ![]() ![]() I’ve started using a pair of apps that blur this text/graphic distinction in a helpful way. Those characters are just collections of pixels. It may be perfectly readable, but you can’t select it, copy it, or do anything else with it as text. On the other hand, although graphics aren’t immutable, you can generally deal with them only at the pixel level (though some vector formats allow object-level manipulation).īut of course, it’s commonplace for text to appear within graphics files. Speaking broadly, you can search, copy, edit, and otherwise manipulate text by the character, word, sentence, paragraph, or document. Work with Text in Images with TextSniper and Photos Searchįor as long as I can remember, there has been a categorical split between text and graphics. #1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Ventura.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials.#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD. ![]() #1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumors. ![]()
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