TRex

TRex captures text from your screen straight into the clipboard using OCR. If you have a PDF or web page where the text cannot be selected, an image with text in it, or even a video, you can extract the text as easily as taking a screenshot.

It lives in the menu bar. Invoke Capture from there or with a global shortcut, select an area of the screen, and the extracted text is in your clipboard. Every feature works offline, so no internet connection is needed.

Highlights

• Text recognition (OCR) from PDFs, screenshots, videos and screen shares
• Reads QR codes and barcodes
• Configurable global shortcuts, recognition language and custom words list
• Automation actions, such as running a Shortcut or opening URLs found in captured text
• URL scheme support and a command line tool
• Works offline