/siri-text-extractor

extract text from images using macOS Siri

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siri-text-extractor

macOS script to extract text from image files and save it to a .txt file adjacent to the image, with a log of the original image file path saved in the text file.

So that you can easily do text search on your image files via grep or via macOS Spotlight.

Usage

Import the file ExtractText.shortcut into your macOS Shortcuts.app.

Now you can use the script extract.sh to recursively search the current directory and extract text from all image files.

For reference, you can recreate the shortcut yourself based on this diagram

Software

Tested with macOS 14.6