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1d ago

Why do screen OCR tools still write temp files to your SSD and charge subscriptions?

Hey People!

Copying text from an image, video, or diagram is something many of us do ten times a day. But almost every screen OCR utility today either:

  1. Costs a recurring subscription for what is essentially a basic OS capability.

  2. Dumps temporary image files to your SSD, quietly triggering Spotlight and media indexing daemons in the background.

  3. Sends your screen captures across the network to external APIs.

I built Byakugan Scan (free & open source) to fix this:

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15h ago

Byakugan Scan - Your OCR Partner for mac

A lightweight, 100% offline macOS menu bar utility for instant in-memory screen text OCR, QR code decoding, and commercial barcode recognition powered by Apple Vision.