Thank you for your patience! :)
Good to hear, I really hope to be able to make everything work as you wish to use the app soon enough!
Aha! No worries, I fully understand and sympathize with that. It's definitely not a great tutorial anyways, so I'm not surprised it can be confusing 😅
Yep! I really would love to add a proper fullscreen mode, it is just that it adds yet another mode to maintain when I release new features. And the biggest two problems are performance and actually making the OCR good enough so that it isn't constantly finding text that doesn't exist and thus ruins the experience.
Oh don't worry, the Manual mode is going nowhere. It is here to stay! :)
To make Automatic mode less destructive, go to the General tab and lower the "Text Removal Expansion" to the lowest possible value. Also, keep in mind that when you change settings, you need to restart the tool (not the main app) to put these changes into effect :)