In the menu bar app, select capture text, and your cursor changes to cross hairs just as though you’re starting a screenshot.Ĭlick and drag across the area with the text you want to capture, and you’ll hear a playful beepboop sound, and you’ll very briefly see a happy thumbs up on screen that says “Copied to Clipboard”. Before digging into all of the options, let me explain how easily it works. TextSniper is a menu bar app with a very simplistic interface. Think about this use case, you get a PDF from someone but it hasn’t been OCRd (had optical character recognition applied to it), with TextSniper you can convert it to text. I’m often reviewing an app and want to use the description the developer so carefully crafted, and yet it’s not real text so I can’t copy it. One of the main places I’m aggravated by non-text text is in the App Store. The main problem that TextSniper sets out to solve is to allow you to copy text that isn’t really text, but actually a graphical representation of text. You can also buy it directly from the developer’s website for $6.99 at textsniper.app. The app is called TextSniper, and it’s $9.99 in the Mac App Store or available through Setapp. I’ve got a Mac app tip for you that isn’t quite as cool as what’s coming in the next OS updates for Apple fans, but you can have it now, and you don’t need a brand new Mac to use it. It was, as I said on Shelly Brisbin’s Parallel podcast, the Simone Biles of text recognition.
They even demonstrated pointing an iPhone’s camera at a whiteboard and using a finger to drag across the hand-written text and have it actually select it and copy it as text. You’ll be able to select text right out of an image. During Apple’s WWDC keynote, they showed off some amazing new text recognition features coming to the Mac and iOS.
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