Anyone know of good windows alternatives for this?
Windows 11 native screenshot tool does OCR for me.
You can also get it free with PowerToys from Microsoft and press WIN+SHIFT+T.
Show HN: I launched a super cheap and simple to use OCR tool for macOS
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#12> Are there other solutions out there? yes you can just do cmd+shift+4 to take a screen shot, then open the screenshot in the popup that appears and MacOS will automatically OCR it (orc button in the bottom right). This is a built in functionality in MacOS
Agreed. But I do wonder if this product provides a better enough UX to be worth it’s current price. In my case, it doesn’t support the languages I use so I’ll be sticking with the default Mac feature.
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#13> Are there other solutions out there? yes you can just do cmd+shift+4 to take a screen shot, then open the screenshot in the popup that appears and MacOS will automatically OCR it (orc button in the bottom right). This is a built in functionality in MacOS
Works for images in Preview and even in Safari too. Super handy.
Works in Photos.app for searching for text in your photo albums too.
macOS OCR behavior extends to most similar things in iOS too.
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#14> Are there other solutions out there? yes you can just do cmd+shift+4 to take a screen shot, then open the screenshot in the popup that appears and MacOS will automatically OCR it (orc button in the bottom right). This is a built in functionality in MacOS
Interestingly the macOS one is not very accurate. I took a screenshot of your comment and macOS OCR read the "cmd+shift+4" as "cod+shift+4".
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#15> Are there other solutions out there? yes you can just do cmd+shift+4 to take a screen shot, then open the screenshot in the popup that appears and MacOS will automatically OCR it (orc button in the bottom right). This is a built in functionality in MacOS
Interestingly the macOS one is not very accurate. I took a screenshot of your comment and macOS OCR read the "cmd+shift+4" as "cod+shift+4".
The thing is, if the linked app is using Apple's Vision API, it will perform the same.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interestingly the macOS one is not very accurate. I took a screenshot of your comment and macOS OCR read the "cmd+shift+4" as "cod+shift+4".
The thing is, if the linked app is using Apple's Vision API, it will perform the same.
Good point. From the list of supported languages [1] it looks like it is in fact using the Vision API in fast mode (as accurate mode seems to support more languages).
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Works for images in Preview and even in Safari too. Super handy.
Works in Photos.app for searching for text in your photo albums too. macOS OCR behavior extends to most similar things in iOS too.
Which makes Photos.app a surprisingly good recipe book.
Re: Show HN: I launched a super cheap and simple to use OCR tool for macOS
#18Anyone know of good windows alternatives for this?
Snipping Tool
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#19> Are there other solutions out there? yes you can just do cmd+shift+4 to take a screen shot, then open the screenshot in the popup that appears and MacOS will automatically OCR it (orc button in the bottom right). This is a built in functionality in MacOS
I've been doing this for a while and find that the OCR performance is fantastic.
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#20> Are there other solutions out there? yes you can just do cmd+shift+4 to take a screen shot, then open the screenshot in the popup that appears and MacOS will automatically OCR it (orc button in the bottom right). This is a built in functionality in MacOS
Works for images in Preview and even in Safari too. Super handy.
The moment I realized this was now a table-stakes feature for a GUI OS, for me, was when I’d been reading and copy-pasting from an image for a couple minutes before realizing it wasn’t a PDF.