Among the productivity applications that we are seeing the most different versions in recent times, are those of content capture: screenshots or parts of it. On the other hand, we have applications that allow us to copy text from different parts of a text, from different websites or applications. Today we know screennotate, which is a fusion of both. The main quality is the possibility of capture a screen with text and the software is able, thanks to OCR techniques, to extract the text to copy it into another document. This is especially useful when we have a scanned document.
Surprise the effectiveness of the program. Although the program is in English, it uses Google's Tesseract OCR 4.0 engine, and therefore, it interprets all the languages that Google can handle, that is, almost all. However, for privacy reasons, tell you that the captures remain on your computer, that is, they are not stored in the cloud. The application is hosted on the taskbar and for each capture you make, an html file is generated that is located on the desktop.
Activation by default is the same as in macOS, with the keyboard shortcut (⇧⌘4) although this combination can be changed in the application preferences.
Another function that saves us a lot of time is the possibility of directly get the link of the web. Therefore, if you capture from the web: Chrome or Safari the link is automatically generated.
In short, it is simple software that does the job. It also covers a function little or nothing developed by macOS, but that many perform on a daily basis. It's okay for a developer to push this field. screennotate It can be obtained for free, but a slight watermark appears on the screenshots. If you want the version free of watermarks, the application is priced at € 14. You can both Download on the developer's website.