Show HN: MacOCR – OCR any text on screen

• macOCR

  18 2,204 0.0 Swift

  Get any text on your screen into your clipboard.

>By default, a text recognition request first locates all possible glyphs or characters in the input image, then analyzes each string.

Since the code doesn't specify any preferred language, I think it would try to detect any language supported by the framework.

From short googling, I found this thread [3]. Looks like the supported languages depends on the MacOS version, and it only support en, fr, it, de, es, pt, zh on Big Sur.

Not sure about the rotation though.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision/vnrecognize...

[2] https://github.com/schappim/macOCR/blob/master/ocr/main.swif...

[3] https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/121048

• insect

  24 3,153 4.9 PureScript

  High precision scientific calculator with support for physical units

You’re welcome.

It should be pretty trivial for someone to hook this into https://insect.sh/.

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• skhd

  64 5,488 3.0 C

  Simple hotkey daemon for macOS

I hooked it up with skhd [0] and it's super convenient, thanks it's a really clean and functional software!

[0] https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd

• TRex

  14 1,114 4.6 Swift

  Copy any text on your screen, stop retyping.

  

• Copyfish

  1 317 1.8 JavaScript

  Copy, paste and translate text from images, videos and PDFs with this free Chrome extension

The problem with Naptha that the OCR quality of Tesseract (used by Project Naptha) is not very good for screenshots. Historically Tesseract has been optimized for text documents. So the OCR results of this macOCR app are significantly better.

Another alternative is Copyfish. It is cross-platform and uses cloud ocr:

https://github.com/A9T9/Copyfish

• OCRmyPDF

  77 11,936 9.6 Python

  OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched

  

OCRmyPDF does that. Given the name I assume it's only for PDFs given the name, but theoretically it should work for any image without the need to extract it from the PDF.

https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF

• flameshot

  232 23,125 8.0 C++

  Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:

  

Flameshot could do with this feature https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/702

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• bitbar

  50 17,325 3.3 Go

  Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot)

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