Extracting copy from screen without printing screen In preparing academic articles that require quotations from reputable Journals and books I am faced with a round-about retrieval process. First I take a screenshot then print that then scan it and then OCR it into my article document. 

Is there a simpler way?

I have an iMac, MS Office and a Canon scanner with My Image Garden.
You may be interested in checking out Aristocrat, a simple app that performs OCR on a selected region of your screen. It's currently free on the App Store.

Disclaimer: I'm the developer :)