On a side note, sonoma and ios have this functionality built in now.

nico · 2024-03-15T15:38:09 1710517089

I'm running Monterey and have the feature, but it's only inside Preview, which means I need to either open the image in Preview or take a screenshot and then open a new image in Preview to paste the screenshot, before getting the text

rhettbull · 2024-03-15T22:31:20 1710541880

Check out Textinator [0] which is an open source macOS app that watches for screenshots and automatically does text detection then copies text to clipboard. (Disclaimer: I'm the author). It works on macOS 10.15+

[0]: https://github.com/RhetTbull/textinator

throwaway290 · 2024-03-15T16:44:13 1710521053

should work in quicklook and safari at least since Ventura. Does for me