Show HN: I launched a super cheap and simple to use OCR tool for macOS

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Post by auden_pierce » Sun, Nov 03, 2024, 10:40 PM UTC

1. Click capture text 2. Select an area on screen with text 3. Paste the text anywhere

Are there other solutions out there? Yes, the best one that I've found is Text Sniper, it $8 so I decided to learn SwiftUI and release Text Capture for $0.99. This one uses MacOS builtin Vision API under the hood so it should also improve with new macOS releases. Would love to hear your feedback!

Show HN: I launched a super cheap and simple to use OCR tool for macOS
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Post by lucasllinasm » Mon, Nov 04, 2024, 12:20 AM UTC

Neat and quick—what are the next couple of features you'd incorporate?

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Post by scratchyone » Mon, Nov 04, 2024, 12:59 AM UTC

This looks wonderful! Just a small heads up, you have a meta tag listing @marc_louvion as the creator (assuming this landing page is built on one of his templates?). I figure you may want to update that so it has your info instead.

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Post by scosman » Mon, Nov 04, 2024, 1:04 AM UTC

What makes it better than screenshot and Preview? The built in OCR is pretty great on MacOS.

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Post by jedbrooke » Mon, Nov 04, 2024, 1:05 AM UTC

> 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

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Post by jitl » Mon, Nov 04, 2024, 1:10 AM UTC

The system does this automatically on macOS and iOS in screenshots and stuff.

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Post by rammer » Mon, Nov 04, 2024, 1:10 AM UTC

Anyone know of good windows alternatives for this?

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Post by jwells89 » Mon, Nov 04, 2024, 1:12 AM UTC

jedbrooke wrote: post #5

> 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