Show HN: Byakugan Scan – fast macOS OCR by keeping screen capture in memory

Category: devtools

Tags: macos, ocr, screen-capture, swift, utility

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 5, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Byakugan Scan is a macOS menu bar utility for fast OCR, QR, and barcode scanning from screen selections, emphasizing in-memory capture to avoid disk I/O and permission prompts. It offers numerous quality-of-life features like table formatting, de-hyphenation, and deep links, with solid documentation and tests.

Target audience: macOS power users, developers, and office workers

Repository: https://github.com/halcyon-past/byakugan-scan · Swift · MIT · 2 stars

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