Summarize Clipboard Utility Manager (SCUM)

I have created a macro that summarizes whatever you put into the clipboard, whether it be text or an image, and then reports to you what is in there, either by a macOS Notification, or a spoken voice, or a Progress Bar window. Let me start be showing what you see when you start it for the first time (either by a Hot Key or by capturing a blank image into the clipboard).

The first thing you should decide is whether you want the Mode to be a Notification, or Spoken Text, or a Progress Bar window.

If you pick Voice, then whenever you capture a clipboard, all the reporting will be done in a spoken voice. If you pick Notification, the reports will be done using macOS notification windows. And if you pick ProgressBar, then the reports will be in the single line of a Progress Bar window. Here are some examples of what you could see:

Example 1: if you pick Mode=Notification, Advertisement=Title, and Pixels=Subtitle, then you will see something like this when you capture an image:

Example 2: if you pick Mode=Notification, Advertisement=Title, WordCount=Subtitle, LineCount=Subtitle, CharCount=Subtitle, then when you capture some text, you will see something like this:

Example 3: if you pick Mode=ProgressBar, Strings=Title, then when you capture an image you will see something like this: (the macro uses OCR to convert the image to strings)

There are about 512 possible combinations you can pick from, so that's too many to document here. Of course, a few of the combinations may not be valid. For example, there's only so much data that you can display in a Progress Bar window. And there are a few items that don't always apply (for example, you can't display the DPI for a text clipboard.)

There's a good chance you may find a bug. I did some testing, but this is a lot of code to write in a single session.

I will upload the macro itself in a few seconds.... ok here it is....

Summarize Clipboard Utility Manager v1.1 Macro (v11.0.4)

Summarize Clipboard Utility Manager v1.1.kmmacros (50 KB)

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This gets an :heart: for the macro name alone...

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Version 1.0 was called CAT (Clipboard Analysis Tool) but I didn't think that name was Purrfect.

If I recall correctly, I wanted to add "Summarize" to the utility name, and my first thought was to add that word before "CAT", but quickly realized that that would not be a good name. :poop:

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This is very nice. Great features. Thank you.

In case anyone is interested in additional clipboard related information, this app is nice and simple:

It focuses on the OS level technical details of the current clipboard item. But I thought I’d post it here because it could be useful.

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When I wrote my macro above, I did observe that macOS seems to have 4 internal pasteboards. I didn't understand the other 3, so I just focussed on the main one. It might be possible for me to upgrade my macro to include the other 3.

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