macOCR

And if you want to invoke it from Terminal: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen[1]. macOCR is a command line app that enables you to turn any text on your screen into text on your clipboard. When you envoke the ocr command, a "screen capture" like cursor is shown. Any text within the bounds will be converted to text. You could invoke the app using the likes of Alfred.app, LaunchBar, Hammerspoon, Quicksilver, Raycast etc. [1] https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

I dug into the code, looks like it use VNRecognizeTextRequest[1] from Vision framework by Apple here [2]. And the docs says >By default, a text recognition request first locates all possible glyphs or characters in the input image, then analyzes each string. Since the code doesn't specify any preferred languages, I think it would try to detect any languages supported by the framework. From short googling, I found this thread [3]. Looks like the supported languages depends on the MacOS version, and it only support en, fr, it, de, es, pt, zh on Big Sur. Not sure about the rotation though. [1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision/vnrecognize... [2] https://github.com/schappim/macOCR/blob/master/ocr/main.swif... [3] https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/121048

This looks like a .xcodeproj file. This isn't source code, it's auto generated metadata for the Xcode IDE. You have to check it into source control because Xcode is dumb and sometimes breaks your project if it can't find its own metadata. The actual code here that isn't just Xcode boilerplate is in this very simple to read file: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR/blob/master/ocr/main.swif...

Why are you complaining about code that is (hopefully) obviously auto-generated and not "written" by the author, but still necessary nonetheless? It's because you are "Not a Mac user or developer", so we should be a bit more considerate on you Maybe the issue your complaint unexpectedly tries to surface is that many awesome, highly useful projects like this one depend on code that isn't human-readable. I think this is a noteworthy point and should be discussed more often. But then again, having the code in some form of source control /at all/ is far, far better than the alternative, which is depending on some instructions in a README.md or just hoping the user will know how to use XCode properly such that the real contribution of the project is used Maybe your post also somewhat points out the fact that to newcomers or people looking at X