MacOCR
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MacOCR is a command-line tool for macOS that, when you select a region of the screen, recognizes the text in it and copies it to the clipboard. Because it uses the text recognition of the Vision framework built into macOS, there is no need to install a separate OCR engine, and if you hook it up to a shortcut app you can grab text right away from images, videos, or screens where copying is blocked. It is written in Swift.
Get any text on your screen into your clipboard.