Copy text from your Mac screen without retyping it

Live OCR copies words off the screen. You do not keep an image unless you want one. OCR on a screenshot you already saved is the other path.

Copy the words

Choose OCR from the Shoverlay menu or the All-In-One picker.
Drag around the text on screen.
Paste. Shoverlay copied the words without making you save a picture.

Screen Recording is still required, because the app has to see the screen. After you allow it, quit Shoverlay and open it again.

If the paste is wrong

Select a tighter region. Very small type and text that is partly covered will come through poorly. Zoom the content and select again. The text stays on your Mac.

Install Shoverlay on the Mac App Store.