Named after one of the oldest pigments known to mankind, Red Ocher /ɹɛd ˈoʊkər/ is a macOS menu bar application (a.k.a. MenuBarExtra) that allows users to easily capture a portion of the screen, perform optical character recognition (OCR) on it using the Tesseract OCR library and return the text into the clipboard.
Weather you need to digitize an old document, copy a "protected" text from a web or qiuckly grab words out of a photo, Red Ocher is a simple and powerful solution.
Sits in the menu bar, day and night...
...waiting to be triggered...
...and paste the text.
Choose 1 of 3 convenient presets or create a custom keyboard shortcut
Choose one or more specific language from over 120 different language and script models.
Specify the correct characters by creating a whitelist or/and a blacklist
To properly function,
Red Ocher requires
specific system settings.
To load Red Ocher on login (optional):
System Preferences > Users & Groups > [your username]
> Login Items > add Red Ocher
To set a global keyboard shortcut:
System Preferences > Security & Privacy Privacy >
Accessibility > add Red Ocher
To take a screenshot:
System Preferences > Security & Privacy Privacy >
Screen Recording > add Red Ocher
Red Ocher is a side-project and it takes a time and effort to develop it. Please, consider supporting by sharing this page on social media or making a donation.
Contributions to Red Ocher are welcome! If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, please feel free to submit a pull request or open an issue in the repository.