Now, similar to how you allowed access to Setapp the first time, follow the same steps to enable access for TextSniper. Once signed in, go back to the Setapp, search for TextSniper, and click on the Install button. If you do not have an account, create one from their website. Next, you need to sign in to your account on Setapp. Head over to your Mac’s Security and Privacy settings and allow access to Setapp. You will now get a pop-up asking you to enable access to Setapp. ![]() Once that is done, you need to head over to the folder where you unzipped the file and click on the TextSniper.app to run it. To view what is inside this file, you need a zip tool to unzip it (downloaded file). When you download Setapp from the website, it is downloaded as a ZIP (.zip) file. However, if you go that route, you do not get a 7-day trial. Alternatively, you can directly get TextSniper from the App Store. To get started, head over to Setapp’s website and download Setapp on your Mac. As soon as you do that, the app automatically captures the selected text and saves it to the clipboard, which you can then paste wherever you want. Talking about its working, TextSniper requires you to press a hotkey (keyboard shortcut) to trigger the utility, after which it gives you a crosshair to select the text in any visual document. TextSniper also got featured on ProductHunt - a product discovery platform - and made it to their product of the day list. It is part of Setapp: a subscription-based service from MacPaw that includes a host of utilities for iOS and macOS applications like Ulysses, Newton, CleanMyMac X, CleanShot X, Keysmith, Remote Mouse, AnyTrans, and more. You can use it to extract text from images, videos, and other visual document types such as PDFs, presentations, screencasts, screenshots, webpages, etc. TextSniper is a text recognition (OCR – Optical Character Recognition) utility that lets you capture unselectable text. ![]() ![]() What is TextSniper, and how does it work?
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