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For the mac there's TextSniper which does just that.

There’s a Power Toys util for windows that does the same - draw a rectangle around the text you want, and it OCRs it to your clipboard.

On mac, I just do a quick screenshot and use the builtin OCR in Preview to select and copy text all the time.

Textgrabber does that without needing a screenshot. Found it here on HN, never looked back.

> Textgrabber does that without needing a screenshot.

There seems to be a product or two using that name: can you give a URL to the legitimate one?