App: TRex - Copy the Uncopyable
Developer: Ameba Labs, LLC
Genres: Utilities, Productivity

TRex makes OCR easy and accessible on a Mac.

But what is OCR anyway? Imagine you have a PDF file or a Web page where you can't select the text, image with text on it, or even a YouTube video. Forget retyping it manually; with TRex, you can extract text from anywhere, and it is as easy as taking a screenshot.


TRex can help you to copy text from:
- A PDF with non-selectable text
- A screenshot
- YouTube video
- Zoom call screen sharing
- ... and more!

If you can see it on your screen - TRex can copy it.

Every feature in TRex works offline, no internet is needed:
- Text recognition (OCR)
- Read QR Code and barcodes
- Handy macOS menu bar app, with option to hide it
- Configurable global shortcuts
- Configurable recognition language
- URL scheme support trex:\\capture

Release notes:
- New: macOS Ventura support, including new laguages: Japanes, Korean, Ukranian and Russian
- New: Automatic language detection and ability to capture multi-language text. macOS Ventura only.
- New: Drag&Drop an image on the menu bar item to OCR it
- New: New option in CLI to OCR a file 
- New: macOS Services integration
- New: Integration with Shortcuts. Option to run a Shortcut on successful capture.
- New: Dedicated Keyboard shortcuts for capture from screen and capture from clipboard, with or without running automation
- New: Custom words supports. If you're using TRex for highly specialized text(medical, engineering, etc.) you can improve text recognition by providing a list of words, which are specific to your field.
- New: URL Scheme endpoints for triggering capture from clipboard
- New: Embedded CLI tool
- New: Official Alfred workflow(download on GitHub)
- Fixed: Cleaned up text capitalization in menus and preferences