amebalabs/TRex
View on GitHub ↗ ★ 1,951 Swift
Copy any text on your screen, stop retyping.
7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2021-05-22 · latest 2026-03-15
20082026
-
TRex is great, been using it for a while. https://ameba.co/trex/ https://github.com/amebalabs/TRex/releases/tag/v2.0.0
comment by TooSmugToFail · 2026-03-15 · in macOS app to copy text from screenshot -
…on the front page a few hours later! Side note, what a breath of fresh air Gnome on Fedora is! [1] https://github.com/amebalabs/TRex
comment by nathansherburn · 2024-03-15 · in TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop -
Similar tool, but open source - https://github.com/amebalabs/TRex
comment by blesswinsamuel · 2022-06-16 · in macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers -
To get this functionality everywhere , I’ve taken using the TRex app: https://github.com/amebalabs/TRex I have it mapped to ctrl-alt-command-C. As more and more apps and webpages make text unselectable, it’s become invaluable. My favorite…
comment by wanderingstan · 2022-05-09 · in Preview, the Mac app people forget about -
…2. Now you can copy any text on your screen. TextSniper - $6.99 https://textsniper.app TRex - free https://github.com/amebalabs/TRex
comment by jibbers · 2021-10-01 · in Less known macOS apps you will legitimately want to use every day -
Very nice! I'm currently using https://github.com/amebalabs/TRex for the same purpose.
comment by apetrovic · 2021-05-22 · in Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen