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Copy any text you see on screen
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Joseph Finney
Text Grab — Copy any text you see on screen
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Text Grab uses OCR to copy any text displayed on screen. This means you can copy text from images, PDFs, video, or within an app's UI.
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Chris Messina
Top Hunter
On the Mac, check out OwlOCR 4.0.
Ton
@chrismessina Or TextSniper https://www.producthunt.com/post... All you need is command shift 2 and you're done.
Chris Messina
Top Hunter
😮 (TBH I actually use an Alfred Workflow for this! 😜)
Joseph Finney
Maker
I made Text Grab out of frustration when people would email images or PDFs of text which I couldn't select easily. When I learned there was a simple OCR API in Windows 10 I made a quick proof of concept and loved it so much I began sharing the app with my coworkers, then submitted it to the Microsoft Store.
V Keerthi Vikram
It works beautifully well.
Vas
?makers! Cool & useful. Wouldn't you get some complaints from the websites that do not want their content OCRed, though?
Joseph Finney
Maker
@vasgo OCR is widely available. Screenshots can be pasted into Google or Bing which then performs OCR on the image. Text Grab is different because it does not upload the image to the web to do the OCR, instead uses the Windows 10 API.