KM's OCR Actions vs Monterey's Live Text OCR... And The Winner Is

[Zabobon]

@noisneil

I'm actually finding it quite a bit slower than KM's own OCR. Is that your experience too? Probably to do with having to write a file first. Shame there isn't a way to directly OCR a defined area within Shortcuts...

I've just seen the below by @gglick - it works without having to make a temporary file first and seems to be faster.

Having Problems With Converting Screen Shots to OCR

Instead of simulating the macOS hotkey, it's better to run the screencapture command in a shell script action with the interactive flag. This will make the macro wait until you've finished taking the screenshot before running the OCR. You can find a complete macro that already does this here: Since you're on Monterey and KM 10.2, you could also use the built-in OCR that powers Live Text instead of the Tesseract OCR engine that KM uses. The easiest way I've found to do that is to make a Shortcu…