![]() It wasn't perfect, but I could hardly read it myself. There was even worse text at the bottom and it did a good job of reading that too. Here is fuzzy white text on a red background and the top line is as bent as a banana but Easy Screen OCR got it nearly all right. Apart from that, it was very accurate, even with poor images, and I was impressed. It read left to right across the page and mixed the text from each column. The second problem is a bit more irritating and it does not appear to support multiple columns of text. You need to join the lines of text in the window before copying the text or in your word processor after pasting the text in. One is a minor one and it puts a carriage return at the end of each line. It isn't quite perfect and there are a couple of problems. It wasn't a particularly good photo and the screen resolution was quite low at 1280 x 800 (a pre-retina display MacBook), but the app did a great job of turning it into text. Easy Screen OCR then took a screenshot and turned it into text. I took a photo of a document on my phone and displayed it using Quick Look (select a file in Finder and press spacebar). It can then be pasted into any application you want, such as a word processor like TextEdit. Switch to the Text tab and a Copy button copies the text to the Mac's clipboard. The Image tab shows the screen capture and the OCR button extracts the text and places it on the Text tab. The mouse is then used to select the window to capture.Ī small window is displayed with two tabs. The idea is that you display the image on the screen, such as a photo or an application, and then click Capture screenshot. When it is run, it adds an icon to the menu bar and clicking it displays a menu with Capture Screenshot on it. Grab the screenĮasy Screen OCR is less than a megabyte and takes up hardly any disk space. There are probably even more uses for OCR and basically anything that can be displayed on the screen that contains text can be turned into a text file. You could extract text from applications that display text on the screen.You could extract text from photographs with signs and notices.You could extract the text from old scans of documents saved as image files.You could photograph paper-based documents using the camera on a phone and then turn them into editable text.Why might you want to convert images to text? Easy Screen OCR is a tiny app for the Mac that does just that, but it does it in an unusual way. ![]() OCR (optical character recognition) is the process of extracting text from images such as JPEG photos and making it editable by saving it as plain text. If you have screenshots, photos and other images that contain lots of text, it can be easily extracted and pasted into your word processor in seconds using a free utility for macOS. ![]()
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