Never get annoyed by not selectable text on websites*, PDFs, images, videos or system user interfaces again. Just select the region of your screen in the same manner as you would take a screenshot and find all recognized text in your clipboard ready to get pasted anywhere.
All processing is done locally. This app contains no tracking or analyzing frameworks. No data is shared.
*as, for example, this page does for some inexplicable reason
Select Screen Region
Select any text on your screen by drawing a rectangle to start OCR detection*. Use it with web sites, PDFs, videos, and images. Basically anything that is text and is on your screen. *scanned text can be English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese (both simplified and traditional)

Let it float
See the scanned text in an overlay and let it read aloud from macOS.
Paste anywhere
Have all detected text in your clipboard ready to paste it into every text field.

Find it
Hold down the Command Key (⌘) to find the recognized text with your favorite search engine.
Don't Repeat Yourself
Your scanned texts are collected in a workflow list and can be restored to your clipboard.

Changelog
TextMan has a weekly scheduled release cycle as long as there are so many things on the roadmap.
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Version 1.9 – Drag'n'Drop going full circle
Sep 13, 2022You can now drag text from previews into any textfield or Finder.
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Version 1.8 – “Sprechen Sie Deutsch?”
Sep 9, 2022Finally a german localization was added.
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Version 1.7.1 – Bug fixes. Really!
Aug 30, 2022The phrase may be worn out, but it's really true. :)
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Version 1.7 – Drop it like it's hot
Aug 22, 2022You can now import supported images and PDF files and convert images from the clipboard directly into text.
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Version 1.6.1 – Under the magnifying glass
Aug 18, 2022The visualization of the capture action has been improved. You can now clearly see whether you will copy text to the clipboard or search for it in your browser.
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Version 1.6 – LMGTFY!
Aug 16, 2022Adds option to hold down Command (⌘) when capturing and to start searching the recognized text in any search engine.
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1.5 – Let’s talk about Text!
Aug 9, 2022Adds a button to the overlay to let the scanned text read out aloud
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1.4.1 – whereami
Aug 2, 2022Fixes overlay position when more than one monitor is available
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1.4 – WYSIWYG
Jul 28, 2022Adds an overlay preview of the recognized text
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1.3 – Attribution is everything
Jul 19, 2022Some small bug fixes and a new button to see all used open-source libraries
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1.2 – History is now a workflow
Jul 12, 2022Scan text snippets one by one and then export them all at once!
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1.1 – Someone gave me a history lesson
Jul 5, 2022Adds a menu item to access recently captured text items
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1.0
Jun 30, 2022Initial release