App: TextExtractor for Safari
Developer: 春丽 谢
Genres: Produktivität, Dienst­programme

TextExtractor for Safari is an easy-to-use extension of Safari, it can extract and recognize any non-searchable and non-editable text on your web page. 

This extension is intuitive to use and makes extracting text from your images, scanned paper documents, PDFs, or even videos easy. Easily accessible from the toolbar whenever you need it and has a simple user interface.

Drag and select with a mouse any part of an image, photo, PDF document on the web page, and the extension will process and recognize any text within this selection. The text output will be saved into a clipboard, so you could paste it into your favorite macOS text editing or note-taking software.


Finally, the extension's optical character recognition engine doesn't need an internet connection to process documents. Great OCR solution for those who are concerned about privacy. The application does not collect any users' data.


Use Cases:

• Read text from images, PDF documents, photos, video, or any other sources inside your Safari webpage.

• Pull text from a non-searchable PDF file from Safari without a need to process the whole document.

• Copy text even when it is uncopiable like in ebooks or web articles.

• Quickly extract emails, links, phone numbers, etc.

• Read QR or barcodes.


Features:

• On-device OCR technology. No internet connection is needed.

• Instant text recognition. No need to upload files into the application. OCR document or file on the fly.

• High accuracy and performance processing any documents.

• Recognizes even tiny text on images with low quality or dense background.

• Supports optical character recognition in multiple languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Traditional and Simplified Chinese.

• Fully compatible with macOS Big Sur and optimised for Apple's M1 chips.

Release notes:
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