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purplecats 6 hours ago

neat. why not screenshot and tesseract (videos/images/viewport/etc)

Dramatize 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because you then have the macOS orange screen sharing warning/icon. I don't really want to record my screen, just the text is enough.

hetsaraiya 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Agree

latexr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Project reasons aside, macOS has perfectly capable, local, native OCR that you can access programmatically, without having to install something else.

hzwanip an hour ago | parent [-]

OCR starts from screenshots though. This only grabs text via accessibility APIs, before rendering or any screenshots.

latexr an hour ago | parent [-]

Yes, I know. Like I said: “Project reasons aside”. I’m not suggesting OCR for this, I’m imparting the general information to be used in other situations that in macOS you can OCR without requiring third-party tools.