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lsolesbee

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Feb 15, 2021
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I recently began using textsniper on my 2022 macbook air. VERY productive tool.
But I'm trying to find if there is an older version available for download, that would work on my old 2014 macbook pro macOS 10.13.6.
Or are there other apps similar to textsniper that I could use. I checked out Textgrabber2 but it's first version doesn't work on macOS as old as 10.13.6.
 

twoperkg

macrumors newbie
Nov 18, 2020
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Hi, I am the developer of TextSniper, I appreciate your interest and positive feedback. Unfortunately, we don't have a version for macOS earlier than 10.15 Catalina, so it won't work on your 2014 MacBook Pro. For your older system, you might consider online OCR tools, though they won't be as seamless or productive as TextSniper.
 

lsolesbee

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Feb 15, 2021
13
2
THANKS for the info, and thanks for creating textsniper.app... i just got it a month or so ago and already use it all the time.
i guess i should find out what else it can do. i only use it to grab text anywhere, even from a paused video or words in an image or advert.

its very handy grabbing things like links, websites and email addresses that don't allow highlighting with mouse in order to cmd+c to copy,
just hitting cmd+shift+2 captures the text so acurately, it's such a timesaver.

for more handy tools, i also just learned about POPCLIP.app. for those of us that mistakenly don't notice CAPSLOCK is on until so much has already been typed...one of Popclip's 150 extensions, is "ab"... when you highlight all the uppercase text, a little menu pops up near your cursor, click the "ab" selection and everything highlighted will become lowercase.
But what i use most is just the little popup menu option, "copy" i can click that when hitting cmd+c to copy is inconvenient.
another extension i find quite useful, is the time clock icon, that pastes the date and time, and i configured it yyyy-mm-dd and use it frequently as prefix to filenames and foldernames so they will sort chronologically, like bank statements and billing statement...
Another extension is the "+" sign, which glues the second highlighted text onto the current clipboard saved text.
a couple more are wordcount and character count. Or send highlighted text to chatGPT. or sort highlighted list.

another useful app is copyclip.app, which i use more often than copyclip2.app, because i like seeing the full list rather than just 10 at a time. copyclip2 allos pinning clips.
They keep a long list of every item you previously copied to the clipboard.
i just keep wanting a way to export all those clips to create a database or spreadsheet of important or worthy of keeping, clips previously saved
 
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