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--- action:OCR_Image [2019/07/15 04:16] – peternlewis
+++ action:OCR_Image [2023/09/13 03:07] (current) – peternlewis
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 ====== OCR Screen or Image ======
-The //OCR Image// action allows you to extract the text from an image using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) (specifically using the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_(software)|Tesseract OCR library]]).
+The //OCR Image// action allows you to extract the text from an image using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) (specifically using either Apple Text Recognition (v11+ and macOS 10.15+) or the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_(software)|Tesseract OCR library]]).
 {{ ocr-image.png?nolink&503x171 | OCR Image }}
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 As with any OCR, the text may contain errors so you should be careful not to assume the result is 100% accurate.
-By default their is a [[trigger:Clipboard_Filter|Clipboard Filter]] macro to OCR images available in the Clipboard Filters folder which you can access from the [[manual:Clipboard_History_Switcher|Clipboard History Switcher]] Gear (⚙) menu.
+By default there is a [[trigger:Clipboard_Filter|Clipboard Filter]] macro to OCR images available in the Clipboard Filters folder which you can access from the [[manual:Clipboard_History_Switcher|Clipboard History Switcher]] Gear (⚙) menu.
 {{ ocr-clipboard-filter.png?nolink&537x428 | OCR Clipboard Filter }}
+Note that the Tesseract OCR software prefers black-on-white text, and while it will often work with white-on-black text, it will be more likely to fail in those cases.
 ===== See Also =====