OCR your latest screenshot on MacOS and copy its contents to the clipboard

read-screenshot.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# Give this +x and put it on your $PATH

import subprocess
import os.path
import glob
from pathlib import Path


def get_latest_file(path, *paths):
    """
    Returns the name of the latest (most recent) file 
    of the joined path(s)
    
    From
    https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/120494/finding-the-latest-file-in-a-folder
    """
    fullpath = os.path.join(path, *paths)
    list_of_files = glob.glob(fullpath)
    if not list_of_files:
        return None
    latest_file = max(list_of_files, key=os.path.getctime)
    return latest_file

def get_latest_screenshot():
    home = str(Path.home())
    return get_latest_file(home, 'Desktop', 'Screen*')

def get_image_text(path):
    args = ['tesseract', path, '-']
    p = subprocess.run(args, capture_output=True, check=True)
    return p.stdout.rstrip().decode('utf8')

def main():
    ss_path = get_latest_screenshot()
    result = get_image_text(ss_path)
    subprocess.run(['pbcopy'], input=result.encode('utf8'), check=True)
    print("Copied to clipboard:")
    print(result)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()