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Safari already does that. Quite a useful feature.

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Specifically, only Apple Silicon allows automatic OCR. Works on iOS too.

It works on Intel Safari as well.

It doesn’t work on my Intel Macs unless it’s really slow.

Maybe it is! I mostly use it to select text in social media images for which it feels reasonably responsive.

It works for me on an Intel MPB (2020) but it's probably a lot slower.

On this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface it takes almost ~10 seconds for the text in the first image to become selectable after page load.

With local images / PDFs in Preview it's really quick though

Neat.

You can also use MacOS's OCR capability to create a shortcut that allows you to copy and paste the text out of any region on the screen -- for example, a stack trace someone is showing you in a screen share.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/468362

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