Viz

Status: Maintained
Version: 1.4
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Extract text from images, videos, QR codes, barcodes with a simple snip mechanism.

Features

• 100% Swift
• Small app size (~3MB)
• Very quick extraction process
• Copies to clipboard automatically, ready to paste
• Post-processing option to execute shell commands when capture is taken. Can use the captured text via [ocr] token within the shell commands
• Hotkeys CMD+Shift+1 and CMD+Shift+2 for starting a text or qr/barcode scan. These can be cleared out and custom hotkeys can be set by user
• Shows copied text in a floating window, which can be set to auto-hide as well
• Enable or disable line breaks in the extracted text
• Append multiple text snippets to the clipboard by enabling Append option in Settings, otherwise it only holds one snippet at a time
• Launch at login option
• Custom auto-updater that pulls latest release notes and binaries from GitHub Releases (Viz should be ran from /Applications folder to avoid permission issues)

Preview

Text Extraction Demo

text.mp4

QR/Barcode Extraction Demo

code.mp4

Requirements

• MacOS 13.0+ (App uses some newer SwiftUI functions/modifiers which don't work on anything lower than 13.0)
• Open Viz first time by right clicking and selecting Open. This adds an exception to Gatekeeper so it doesn't complain about the app not being signed with an Apple Developer certificate

Getting Viz

Releases

Pre-compiled, always up-to-date versions are available from my releases page.

Homebrew

Since I don't have a paid developer account, I can't submit to the main Homebrew cask repo. You can still add the app via Homebrew by tapping my homebrew repo:

brew install alienator88/homebrew-cask/viz

License

Important

Viz is licensed under Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause. This means that you can do anything you'd like with the source, modify it, contribute to it, etc., but the license explicitly prohibits any form of monetization for Viz or any modified versions of it. See full license HERE

Thanks

Much appreciation to Wynioux for their Gatekeeper script used as inspiration.

Some of my apps

Pearcleaner - An opensource app cleaner with privacy in mind

Sentinel - A GUI for controlling gatekeeper status on your mac

Viz - Utility for extracting text from images, videos, qr/barcodes