![]() But, this is not a significant setback since Apple has introduced a new app called ‘ TextSniper OCR simplified‘ for those with older versions of the operating system (BigSur and earlier). While it comes as an in-built feature in the new macOS Monterey, people who use older macOS versions may face difficulties since they do not have it as an in-built feature. An OCR ( Optical Character Recognition) tool, a live text editor in Apple products, turns texts from online and offline images (restaurant menus, greetings cards, postcards) converted into readable text for your phones and laptops. TextSniper is available from the developer’s website at $10, or $5 during the launch promo period.Live text is the recent most feature in iOS 15, macOS Monterey, and iPadOS 15. For me, this makes it a no-brainer for any Mac user who ever needs to transcribe text, even occasionally (so long as you are running macOS Catalina). TextSniper has a one-off cost of $10, currently reduced to $5 as a launch promo. There may be pros and cons with the product itself, and there may be a need to balance price against value. Sometimes my review conclusion needs some thought. It’s been as close to perfect as any OCR system I’ve ever used, and able to cope with a massive range of formats. (Incidentally, if you’re an Andrew Scott fan, as I am, you can stream the play online.) Here’s a rare example of an error - omitting the colon in the first line:īut it still managed to read white-outline all-caps text on a colored background. It didn’t seem to matter what I threw at it, it always coped: Here are some examples of its performance with trickier graphics. In my initial use, despite going out of my way to find difficult examples for it, it’s been almost perfect. The really impressive thing to me is the combination of speed and accuracy. Here you can see the graphic and the captured text side-by-side. ![]() That statement took the form of a graphic.Īpple statement on terminating Epic’s developer account: “We won’t make an exception” /3a3L6meHfI Performanceįor example, when Apple announced that it would be terminating Epic Games’ developer account, Mark Gurman tweeted a statement from Apple. TextSnipe displays a brief thumbs-up icon and the words “Copied to clipboard.” Click into your document and CMD-V in the usual way, and the OCR’d text is pasted. Hit this combination, select the area of the screen you want to read, and… that’s it. The only visible sign you get is a small menu bar icon, but you now have a new screengrab option: Shift-CMD-2. What TextSniper does is allow you to select any words visible on your screen, no matter what its format, and to turn it into text, you can paste into any document. Company statements on Twitter are a common example, where they get around the character limit by posting an image of the statement…Ĭurrently, I read it aloud, using Siri dictation to automatically type the text, but it’s a clunky solution. One of the more annoying aspects of my work is when I need to quote some text that is provided in graphic form. Using it is as easy as taking a screengrab and then pasting. It takes text in a graphic or non-selectable PDF and turns it into actual text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). TextSniper is a new Mac app I wish I’d had years ago.
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