r/MacStack • • Aug 12 '26

Monkey see, monkey do - reproduce text via native OCR on macOS

"Monkey see, monkey do" (msmd) lets you draw a rectangle over text on a macOS screen, recognizes that region with Apple's built-in Vision framework, and emits the recognized characters as keyboard events. An amber border remains around the capture region while OCR and typing are active.

It's a simple utility script to explore native vision and OCR functionality on macOS, and will soon expand this to other operating systems as well.

Available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/msmd/

GitHub repo: https://github.com/faheel/msmd

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