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TextSniper

Price: £9.99 from the Mac App Store

Apple’s addition of Live Text to iOS, iPadOS and macOS last year lets you treat bitmapped text in images almost like letters and words. In macOS, click on an image in Preview, Safari and other apps, and you can select the text and copy it or translate it, open URLs and send email. But Live Text only goes so far. It works only for images you can open or select and requires macOS 12 Monterey for Mac

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