Copy Text From Image in Firefox on macOS

by Steven Garrity

Today I learned that if you right click on an image in Firefox on macOS (and only on macOS), you can “Copy Text From Image“. This does what it sounds like: macOS has a system to recognize text in flat/static images like JPEGs and PNGs. You can also select text in flat images in the macOS Preview.app and QuickLook image previewer to copy the text.

Screenshot of a right-click context menu in Mac OS showing many options including Open Image in New Tab and with the item Copy Text From Image highlighted.

 

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  1. This is generally true of images almost everywhere on a Mac. And the text is often “actionable”: web addresses can be clicked, telephone numbers called, contacts added from photos of business cards.

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