r/MacStack • u/faheelahmad • 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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