This app can copy text from anything on your Mac screen

A of THE better recent features In macOS East Live Text, which allow You has copy text Since pictures on your Mac In Preview, Fast Look, Or Safari. It is honestly somehow magic—any text inside A picture can be Underlines And copy, just as text on A website Or In A document. THE issue: This functionality only works For pictures files, not videos, And You can't to use he has copy text Since A sharing presentation In A meeting unless You take A screenshot And SO extract THE text Since that.

Enter TRex, A free application For Mac that speeds that Workaround up. He works in the same way has Text Extractor For The Windows: Select THE area of THE screen with THE text You to want, regardless of if that text East In A picture, video, Or presentation. Any of them text In THE area of THE screen You select East immediately converted has text And copy has your clipboard. This Functionality come as A cost: TRex East $8 In THE Mac application store, Or East free if You download he Since Github.

After installation, you go get A Short Tutorial on how THE application works, And THE icon will appear In your menu bar. You can trigger THE application Since there, Or together optional keyboard shortcuts In THE settings. THE application himself uses THE even reticle You see When You take A screenshot on your Mac, but instead of create A screenshot, he looks For text that he can recognize with optical character acknowledgement (OCR). That text East SO immediately copy has THE clipboard.

Only A handle of LANGUAGES are supported RIGHT now—English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, And Chinese. THE application can automatically detect THE language of THE text You are to copy if You to want, but he carried out A little better if You take A default In THE settings.

I tested he out A little times, And while not Perfect, he regularly proven Easier that retype text myself, And checked in Me A stage on THE usual "screenshot + ROCK" process. If You find certain words are regularly misspelled: a rare name, For example: you can add that word has THE "Custom Words" tongue In THE settings.

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Maybe THE most unique functionality East find In THE automations tongue. You can together THE application has automatically recognize And open both URL And QR codes, if You to want. You can Also automatically trigger A URL scheme Or even A Apple Shortcut. It is A surprisingly flexible program - you can together he up has send THE converted text anywhere You like.

Even without setting up automations, However, TRex East THE the fastest path has copy text Since places on your screen that Otherwise can't be easily copy Since. Damn, has This indicate a few websites even block You Since to copy absolutely - but TRex works around that Also. It is value THE download.