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Re:macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers by dagmx on Thursday June 16, 2022 @04:19PM (#31770492)
If you're on macOS 12 or iOS 15, you can also use the built in live text functionality in Safari, Preview or Photos
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Re:macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers by Tagbert on Thursday June 16, 2022 @04:45PM (#31770766)
True but that only applies to images displayed using the standard image library. TextSniper will capture text from any text displayed on screen, not just within an image. I use it often to pull text from things shared in Zoom. You can do it with the built-in Livetext but you have to do a screen shot, them bring that up in preview to get the text OCRd. TextSniper makes it a single operation.
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Re:macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers by BudaDude on Thursday June 16, 2022 @07:38PM (#31772321)
This only works on M1~ macs. Intel mac don't have OCR for some Apple-ish reason
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Re:macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers by Tagbert on Friday June 17, 2022 @12:32PM (#31780676)
When the beta containing Live Text was first released it was M1 only but by the time it was released, Intel support was included. A lot of people only remember the first impression.
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Re:macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers by dhosek on Thursday June 16, 2022 @09:48PM (#31773206)
It does work on Intel Macs. I've used it plenty of times.
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