Utilities
Text Lens
Selects an area of the screen and returns the text inside it.
Paid$6 one-time on the Mac App Store.macOS
About
Text Lens takes text that cannot be selected, such as the words in an image, a video frame, a PDF scan, or a slide, and hands it back as text you can edit. You draw a box around the area and the words are read from it, which is the difference between retyping a paragraph and pasting it. Nothing needs to be uploaded first.
- Price
- Paid, $6 one-time on the Mac App Store.
- Payment
- One-time purchase
- Platforms
- macOS
- Category
- Utilities
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