ScreenCaptureTools

Warning

This plugin is archived. It still works and can be repurposed for CLI processing of files, but I archived it because I was unable to resolve macOS (15.6.1) Screen Recording permission issues. These problems and relevant links are described in the FIX section.

Tools description

1. ScrnToText – converts any text visible on your screen into text on your clipboard.
2. ScrnToFile – takes a screenshot that you can paste directly into the Finder application as a file.

Installation

sudo bash install.sh

Workflow

You can find different ways to use these scripts in the macOCR repository.

TODO

• When pressing Escape, a 0x0 image is currently created. Instead, the script should simply exit without throwing an error.

FIX

My workaround was to grant Screen Recording permissions to a single application and make sure that application is focused whenever I want to take a screenshot. Otherwise, you need to grant Screen Recording permissions to each application individually.

• For example, give permissions to a note-taking app. Then, while watching a YouTube video, you can take a screenshot by focusing the note-taking app and triggering the tool.

Relevant links:

• Takes screenshot of background instead
• Cron problem
• Screen Recording profile

Alternative and related projects

• macOCR
• macos-vision-ocr