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🧰 MacTextDeformatter

A lightweight macOS menu bar utility that transforms clipboard contents into formats you can actually use. Designed for speed, simplicity, and power-user workflows.


✨ Features

✔️ Remove Rich Text Formatting
Strips styles, fonts, and formatting from text copied into the clipboard.
Useful when ⌘⇧V fails or isn't available.

📊 CSV → TSV
Converts comma-separated values into tab-separated values for flawless pasting into Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets.

🧾 JSON → TSV
Takes a JSON object or array of objects and flattens it into TSV — perfect for data inspection and spreadsheet import.

🔁 JSON → TSV (Transposed)
Rotates the structure: keys become row labels, and values align across columns.

🧠 Clipboard-first design
All operations read from and write to the macOS system clipboard. Just copy → run → paste.


🚀 Getting Started

You’ll need:

  • macOS with Xcode installed
  • No developer account required

🔨 Build and Install

From the project root:

make

This will: 1. Build the app in Release mode 2. Archive and extract it 3. Install it to /Applications

📌 If xcodebuild errors with a message about command-line tools, run:

make xcode-full
make

to switch back to cmdline use

make xcode-cli

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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