Copy text from a document camera on your Mac

Recognize the words under a USB document camera and copy them, without reading them aloud.

OCR here copies text from the camera image. Hearing the Mac read that text is text-to-speech, and it is a separate step. This page stops at the copied words.

Recognize and copy

Put the printed paragraph under the USB camera. Select that camera.
Zoom or focus until the type is sharp. Freeze the frame if the page shifts.
Run OCR and copy the text.

The words stay on your Mac. Blurry type or a line in shadow will come through poorly. Focus, then recognize again. A table you want as Excel cells is Tablune on iPhone or iPad, not this camera OCR.

Install VeeCam on the Mac App Store.