Get any text on your screen into your clipboard.

Marcus S

Last update: Dec 29, 2022

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Overview

macOCR

macOCR is a command line app that enables you to turn any text on your screen into text on your clipboard. When you envoke the ocr command, a "screen capture" like cursor is shown. Any text within the bounds will be converted to text.

You could invoke the app using the likes of Alfred.app, LaunchBar, Hammerspoon, Quicksilver, Raycast etc.

Examples:

An example Alfred.app workflow is available here.

If you're still wondering "how does this work ?", I always find the .gif is the best way to clarify things:

Installation

Compile the code in this repo, or download a prebuilt binary (Apple Silicon, Intel) and put it on your path.

Apple Silicon Install:

curl -O https://files.littlebird.com.au/ocr.zip; 
unzip ocr.zip;
sudo cp ocr /usr/local/bin;

Intel Install:

curl -O https://files.littlebird.com.au/ocr-EPiReQzFJ5Xw9wElWMqbiBayYLVp.zip; 
unzip ocr-EPiReQzFJ5Xw9wElWMqbiBayYLVp.zip;
sudo cp ocr /usr/local/bin;

When running the app the first time, you will likely be asked to allow the app access to your screen.

OS Support

This should run on Catalina and above.

Who made this?

macOCR was made by Marcus Schappi. I create software (and even hardware) to automate ecommerce, including:

Chick Commerce.
This free Australia Post app on Shopify.
Script Ninja which enables you to create powerful scripts and tools to automate your Shopify store.

Thoughts on Sherlocking?

Apple, please sherlock this software!

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Comments

Not work on Chinese language

Hi, it seems this tool can't work properly on image with Chinese language, does it only work with English ? Will Chinese be supported later versions ?

opened by kevinnerd 18
Can't unzip (Intel / Catalina)
Running on a Intel / Catalina (2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7)

curl -O https://files.littlebird.com.au/ocr.zip; unzip ocr.zip; sudo cp ocr /usr/local/bin;

And I am getting that it can't unzip the file to get the binaries

Any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong?
opened by assadtony 2
Add details about adding this as a MacOS Shortcut

I had some trouble understanding the MacOS shortcuts link. So this PR just adds some details about adding as a Shortcut.

Also, thanks for making this, it's incredible ❤️

opened by benwinding 1
Alfred workflow: `brew` is installed to /opt/homebrew

Minor issue, but fyi, on M1 Macs brew is installed to /opt/homebrew (not /usr/local) which prevents the Alfred workflow from executing...

So the bash script should execute: /opt/homebrew/bin/ocr;

You might want to change that in the Workflow :-)

opened by notDavid 1
Not working for Alfred 4?
Hi,

thanks for the great tool. After downloading the workflow in the README. It seems it is not able to work with Alfred 4. Is it possible that there is some specific setting required? Following is the outputs from the debugging when I invoke the workflow. It seems the ocr command didn't return anything from the screenshot part.

[17:36:03.990] OCR[Keyword] Processing complete [17:36:03.993] OCR[Keyword] Passing output '' to Run Script

Meanwhile, I can use the tool directly from the command line by invoking ocr directly. Thanks for any help in advance.
opened by ZhiliangWu 1
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.

jack @ JackdeMacBook-Air in ~ [18:21:56] C:9

$ curl -O https://files.littlebird.com.au/ocr-EPiReQzFJ5Xw9wElWMqbiBayYLVp.zip; % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 243 0 243 0 0 142 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 142

jack @ JackdeMacBook-Air in ~ [18:22:51]

$ unzip ocr-EPiReQzFJ5Xw9wElWMqbiBayYLVp.zip; unzip: cannot find or open ocr-EPiReQzFJ5Xw9wElWMqbiBayYLVp.zip, ocr-EPiReQzFJ5Xw9wElWMqbiBayYLVp.zip.zip or ocr-EPiReQzFJ5Xw9wElWMqbiBayYLVp.zip.ZIP.

jack @ JackdeMacBook-Air in ~ [18:23:03] C:9

$ unzip ocr-EPiReQzFJ5Xw9wElWMqbiBayYLVp.zip; Archive: ocr-EPiReQzFJ5Xw9wElWMqbiBayYLVp.zip End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive. unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of ocr-EPiReQzFJ5Xw9wElWMqbiBayYLVp.zip or ocr-EPiReQzFJ5Xw9wElWMqbiBayYLVp.zip.zip, and cannot find ocr-EPiReQzFJ5Xw9wElWMqbiBayYLVp.zip.ZIP, period.

macOS Big Sur intel

please kindly solve it, thanks.

opened by jackwu882002 1
Refactor active parts into a Swift Package Manager distribution. Add a CLI wrapper.
This is cool! I didn't know the APIs were available. I'd have guessed you'd have to package tesseract. I wanted a version I could build easily from the command line so I could add it to my cross-machine synced setup.

Feel free to ignore, take pieces, etc.

Changes:

use swift package manager

refactored to keep only the active parts

added a CLI arguments wrapper

removed the default pbcopy behaviour

added --copy or -c flag to copy to clipboard

made errors write to stderror and return a failed exit status

make the script delete the temporary image
opened by adam-zethraeus 0
How to build Source code(with a little modify) to exec in order to get ocr(exec)?

As this image show, I compiled the code but ocr(exec) is red, and I can not find the location of it. How can I get ocr(exec) compiling by myself just like I download by curl or homebrew?

opened by Republic1024 1

[brew] Warning: Calling bottle :unneeded is deprecated

When running brew upgrade there's a following warning:

Warning: Calling bottle :unneeded is deprecated! There is no replacement.
Please report this issue to the schappim/ocr tap (not Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/core):
  /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/schappim/homebrew-ocr/ocr.rb:7

opened by jaklan 0

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