iCreate - UK (2021-07)

TextSniper

Developer

Valerijs Boguckis

Difficulty

Time

needed

Step-by-step Copy and paste text from images

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Select the text

A crosshair cursor will appear on the

screen. Use it to highlight the text that you

want to capture. Everything you select will

darken, showing exactly what will be used.

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Copy to clipboard

Once you’ve captured the text that you

want to run through TextSniper’s Optical

Character Recognition system, let go and it’ll

be copied to the clipboard.

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Paste the text

You can now open a text editing app or

a word processor – we are using Pages. Paste

the words you’ve copied to the clipboard

using cmd+V on the keyboard.

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Install TextSniper

You can download TextSniper by visiting

the developer’s website at textsniper.app

or by purchasing it from the App Store. After

installing, it places an icon in the menu bar.

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Find some text

You’ll often come across text that

cannot be highlighted, perhaps because

they’re embedded within an image or a non-

selectable PDF. This report is an example.

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Capture the text

The easiest way to activate TextSniper is

to press shift+cmd+ 2 on the keyboard, or else

click the app’s icon in the toolbar and select

the ‘Capture Text’ option.

TextSniper will even capture wordsfromvideos

Capture text from any image

on your Mac

Although macOS Monterey will let you capture text from any

picture, there’s already a tool that does the job well

O

f all of the forthcoming features for

macOS Monteray, one in particular

caused jaws to slacken. It was the new

Live Text feature, which will allow words within

images to be highlighted, copied and pasted.

Now, there’s more to this function, which is

why it’s so exciting. It’s an interactive feature, so

if a telephone number is detected, then it’ll be

possible to make a call..

But if you’re simply after copying and pasting

text in images and documents where words

cannot be selected, you can carry out that task

today on macOS Catalina and Big Sur thanks to

TextSniper. Here, we look at how it works.

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