#OPENSOURCE KEYBOARD MAESTRO HOW TO#

Basically this macro triggers a screenshot and places the capture on the system clipboard, and in the last step, the OCR Trigger Clipboard action pastes the text from the clipboard into a text document or area.

#OPENSOURCE KEYBOARD MAESTRO HOW TO#

Note: these instructions assume you are familiar with how to use Keyboard Maestro. You can of course set up your macro to fit your particular needs. Here’s how I set up my macro, and I explain why I use five particular actions. Keyboard Maestro 9.0 and higher has the action pre-installed. It follows the same scheme of triggers and actions and supports running Applescript and Automator workflows as actions. It’s similar to BetterTouchTool but more streamlined, and with simpler triggers and actions. (By the way, here’s another article about taking screenshots without manually pressing the hotkeys.) Keyboard Maestro is a simple app that gets its job done: automating your system with macros and hotkeys. These macros can be used to automate just about any repetitive task, like navigating running applications, opening documents, managing text, and controlling web applications. In this article, I show you how to set up a OCR macro action, and then I explain how I map the action to a BetterTouchTool action so that I don’t have to manually press the keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard Maestro is (simplest definition) an application to launch macros on your Mac. And it’s way, way costly as aText does not need an expensive subscription. The technology has been around for a while, and it’s great to see that it’s a Keyboard Maestro action. syncs with iOS and iPadOS with system-wide availability (instead of the crappy custom keyboard TextExpander pretends to provide) aText enables text replacement in macOS in apps and forms where the native replacement is deactivated/does not work. OCR (Optical Character Recognition), extracts text from a screenshot, and after the action runs, it pastes the extracted text to a document or text space. Now that I participate in more online meetings and webinars (thanks to COVID), I regularly find myself using Keyboard Maestro’s OCR text capture action that copies text straight to the clipboard and automatically pastes it where I want.

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