Show HN: Circle2Search, a macOS app for translating on screen text

Category: cli-tool

Tags: macos, ocr, translation, menu-bar-app, vision-framework

Score: 5.0/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 5, Documentation: 6, Utility: 5)

CircleToSearch is a macOS menu bar app that performs on-screen OCR and translation. It's interesting because it combines local Vision framework OCR with a cloud translation backend to overlay translated text directly onto a frozen screen capture, creating a seamless translation experience.

Target audience: backend devs

Repository: https://github.com/yashdhanore/circle2search · Swift

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