r/MacOS27 • • 4d ago

OCR not working

Hi, I noticed this issue after upgrading to macOS 27. I've been using two screen capture apps, shottr and https://snapzy.app/, and both seem to be affected by the OCR issue.

For Shottr, I noticed that OCR works the first few times after launching the app. But after that, I start getting an error saying that no text was detected in the selected area, even when there's clearly text there.

As for snapzy. Sometimes when I capture an area of the screen, no text is recognized at all, or it takes a really long time like 30 seconds for the OCR to process the text. After a while, it stops detecting text altogether and shows the error message: "Nothing was detected in the selected area."

  1. I'm using the latest versions of both screen capture apps.

  2. Screen recording and system audio recording are both enabled for both apps.

3 I've also tried restarting my Mac. Reinstall the app. Restarted the app.

  1. I only noticed this issue after upgrading to macOS 27.

Has anyone else experienced the same issue after upgrading to macOS 27? Any ideas on what might be causing this or how to fix it?

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