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A menu bar app that lets you capture text from the screen. It doesn't matter
if it's from images, over a video, I mean, anything you can see. It detects text
using OCR and generates a Markdown file so you can save it directly to your drive.
Converts any area of the screen into a Markdown file using Apple Vision OCR.
Everything is supposedly done on-device. So, edit the text before saving the
file. I guess these must have some sort of intermediate editor. It does have an option,
as far as I can see, to record a conversation without leaving the Mac. The app doesn't have, doesn't need
an account, doesn't upload files, no telemetry. It seemed to me it's free. Yes, it's free. I said it
at the beginning. Well, time to download it. I understand it's not available for Intel. Anyway,
it's clear by now that we're going to stop seeing apps compatible with
Intel. "This file isn't commonly downloaded and may be dangerous…". Figure out why.
Let me see why it's blocking that file. Normally this shouldn't happen.
What I find weird for a free app is that it doesn't have, I mean, that it's not on GitHub, meaning
either at some point they intend to charge for something, or otherwise, logically, I mean,
they would give access to the code, but anyway. Well, let me install it in the Applications folder.
As far as languages go, it's only in English, from what I understand.
Let's see… startup, purchase, updates, feedback, captures folder. Let's set that up
right now. Let's tell it to save to the Desktop. Uh, Audio Capture, the device to capture,
apps to capture… For the system microphone I'll select the
Scarlett, I don't want it taking over anyway, but alright. While it's
recording: icon and timer, or a compact icon. For now, it's up here.
Shortcuts: we can change them too. That's nice to have. Permissions…
Well, first let's continue with the onboarding. It doesn't seem to be in Spanish from what I see,
so we have to do it in English. Uh, anyway, it tells us a bit about what it
does, specifically to select the folder to save captures, which I already
did just now. That's why the permissions are populating here, which is what I was about to do, but let's
do it now. Permission to capture the screen. Let's give it capture permissions. Here it is.
Accept. Later. Well, it restarted on its own. See, it detected it now. Okay,
continue. The shortcut and doing a test capture. Uh, it asks for permission to access
the screen and audio directly. Here's the icon, and it asks us to make
the frame. Notice that the screen I was trying to capture disappeared.
Technically, this is a normal screenshot. Obviously, there's no text here. I wanted
to capture this one, but let me forget it, just in case the app itself doesn't
allow capturing over itself. Well, let's take the screenshot.
I'm going to select "Capture region". I select all of this and, well, for now the text
is here. Uh, yeah. And this? Doesn't this recorder clear when I close it?
Meaning, if I capture and click it again… Let's make it easy for it.
Down…
R Finder…
with Visual Studio.
Let's see, technically it's doing it.
And it's nothing more than a… it's capturing the text and generating from here
a Markdown file with a header. You could be editing it at every step, I mean,
let's assume I take the capture again. Here I could be making the changes
that, so to speak, I should make, but let's assume that of course,
if I'm already editing the title here, it's using this one, but if
I wanted to put another title, where can I put a title here?
Because I'm not seeing it. This is a regular text editor. Yeah,
that's true. R Finder, which one is this?
Let me see, but is this because I'm adding it myself,
right? An editor itself, I mean, just to review the text and move on,
but speaking of which, wouldn't it then make just as much sense to take a screenshot?
Because sure, this is text, but if it were an image like in this case here… Right,
when capturing that text over an image, it actually performs OCR on it there.
We could do this, except then we'd have to open it in… Right. Let's see,
because if we open this image with Preview,
if in Preview… No, from the clipboard. I have the image here,
yeah, it could simply be something like this, double click and copy text, and I'd have more or less
the same thing, right? In Markdown… well, it's not like that Markdown isn't a bit basic,
I think. And I create a file here, create any random text file. There's the text, it's
grabbing it. It is adding a header and stuff, but we'd have to see,
we'd have to see to what extent what it's adding. Saving a text file
as-is, that's what it's doing. It is a pretty fast step, though,
because if you're right here, I click "Capture region", I tell it to… sorry, "Capture region",
I select all this, for instance, and it puts it right here, so I have it quite
accessible, that quick text. You can add tags, notes… A note, let's see, text and a tag.
Tag 1.
Right, here it's putting data about the application from which the capture was taken.
Uh, it's not bad for having… it's like a screenshot, text-style,
but not an image. So it's like saving you the image file because sometimes you don't need it.
And you get a bit of information about the capture.
The titles I want to give it. Note…
note text, the captured text. Let's see, it does it:
capture, works. It doesn't seem to be a resource-heavy application,
right? It's pretty fast, from what I can tell, very lightweight. Well, at least the
capturing, the text OCR, the actual capture works. A bit weird, but it works. Um.
This macOS menu bar utility extracts text from any area of the screen using Apple Vision OCR and saves it as a Markdown file. Its advantage is that it helps you avoid accumulating screenshot images when you really only need the information.
100% free, requires no account, does not upload data to the cloud, and processes everything locally without telemetry.
Before saving the .MD file, it allows you to correct the text; it doesn’t have a full editor per se, but for minor corrections, it is more than enough. It also adds a header with capture information, such as the name of the source application, directly within the Markdown.
It is a lightweight, fast tool with very low resource consumption.
The interface and initial setup wizard are currently only available in English.
It is geared exclusively towards Apple Silicon processors (leaving Intel compatibility behind).
It does not appear to be open source (I couldn’t find it on GitHub).
Your browser or the system might display a security warning when downloading the executable, but after running a couple of checks, it appears to be safe.
It is an alternative to native tools like Preview, ideal if you manage your notes in Markdown and want to simplify your workflow.
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