TextSniper
Grab text from anything on screen, like videos, PDFs and images, and copy it to your clipboard
TextSniper is an OCR utility for Mac that copies text you can't normally select. Draw a box around text in a video, image, PDF, or app, and it's recognized and copied to your clipboard.
Key features:
- Press Command-Shift-2 or use the menu bar to select an area and copy its text.
- Recognize text on-device, with no internet connection required.
- Read QR codes and barcodes from your screen.
- Have your Mac read captured text aloud with text to speech.
- Set any keyboard shortcut to start a capture.
- Recognize languages including English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, depending on your macOS version.
TextSniper lives in the menu bar rather than the Dock. It's a one-time purchase: the website lists licenses from $7.99 for one Mac to $11.99 for unlimited Macs with a seven-day money-back guarantee, and the Mac App Store version costs $9.99 and requires macOS 12. It's also available through Setapp.