macOCR VS steampipe

I love using macOCR it is a command line tool though, but I bind it to a keyboard shortcut using BetterTouchTool, although you could also use Raycast, Alfred, etc to run it

Mac only but I am a happy user and can recommend

https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

Just rediscovered the Shortcuts a couple days ago while installing it on a friend's mac.

Introducing macOCR - a command line tool that revolutionizes how you capture text on your screen!

With just one command, you can instantly convert any text on your screen into text on your clipboard, making it easy to use in any app or program. Plus, with support for popular launcher apps like Alfred, LaunchBar, and Hammerspoon, it's never been easier to access the power of macOCR.

And if you're feeling really advanced, you can even use it to feed data into an OpenAI large language model for advanced text processing.

Upgrade your text capture game with macOCR today!

Price: $0

MRR: $0

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URL: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

Pretty insane. If you don’t want to use iPhones, I made a while back macOCR which uses the same vision APIs, with a very simple CLI interface. See: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

https://github.com/schappim/macOCR - Get any text on your screen into your clipboard

And if you want to invoke it from Terminal: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen[1].

macOCR is a command line app that enables you to turn any text on your screen into text on your clipboard. When you envoke the ocr command, a "screen capture" like cursor is shown. Any text within the bounds will be converted to text.

You could invoke the app using the likes of Alfred.app, LaunchBar, Hammerspoon, Quicksilver, Raycast etc.

  [1] https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

schappim/macOCR – Get any text on your screen into your clipboard.

Steampipe is a tool for querying cloud APIs and other data sources using SQL in a zero-ETL manner.

Readers may also enjoy Steampipe [1], an open source CLI to live query Google Sheets [2] and 140+ other services with SQL (e.g. AWS, GitHub, etc). It uses Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers under the hood and supports joins etc across the services. (Disclaimer - I'm a lead on the project.)

1 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe

be mindful of its AGPLv3 https://github.com/turbot/steampipe/blob/v0.21.8/LICENSE (AFAIK v0.4.3 is the last MIT release https://github.com/turbot/steampipe/blob/v0.4.3/LICENSE ) and the actual providers are Apache 2 <https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-plugin-aws/blob/v0.131.0...> (but I don't know if provider drift makes them compatible with 0.4 or not)

iasql seems to be AWS only, but good for them for taking this on:

In a prior post I showed how to install Steampipe in AWS CloudShell to instantly query over 460+ resource types from your AWS APIs using SQL, and another post on how to use the Steampipe AWS Compliance mod to assess over 25+ security benchmarks across your AWS accounts.

Readers may find Steampipe's [1] AWS Thrifty Mod [2] useful. It will automatically scan multiple accounts and regions for 50 cost saving opportunities - many of which are looking for over-provisioned or unused resources. For example, it's crazy how much you can save by doing things like just converting your EBS volumes to the newer gp3 type. Combine with Flowpipe [3] to automate checks and actions. It's all open source and extensible.

1 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe

Steampipe [1] is an open source project [2] that includes an embedded Postgres to instantly query cloud, code & more with SQL. This release expands our plugin ecosystem [3] to be a full Zero-ETL platform. Steampipe plugins can now run natively in your own Postgres as Foreign Data Wrappers [4], as SQLite extensions [5] or as simple data export tools [6]. Please give it a try, we'd love your feedback and contributions!

1 - https://steampipe.io