Re:Show HN: PDFs that are readable by human eyes only
by vehemenz on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @04:54PM
(#32006689)
macOS does it by default now. I've found it to be very useful at times.
Any image you open in Safari, Preview, etc. (official Apple programs) will be OCR'd automatically, allowing you to extract the text with copy+paste. I think it works with PDFs, but I haven't tested it.
Any image you open in Safari, Preview, etc. (official Apple programs) will be OCR'd automatically, allowing you to extract the text with copy+paste. I think it works with PDFs, but I haven't tested it.
https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/interact-with-text-i...