Snapshot - Screenshot to Text

Tired of manually retyping text from screenshots? Copy text from screenshots directly to your clipboard with Snapshot. You see an interesting article title in a screenshot. You want to search for it, but there's no way to copy the text. You're forced to type it out manually, character by character. Snapshot solves this in under one second. How It Works: 1. Press: Option+Command+Shift+4 (default screenshot keyboard shortcut + option) 2. Take screenshot of text 3. That's it! The text is instantly extracted and copied to your clipboard to paste wherever you'd like Perfect For: • Copying article titles from social media screenshots • Extracting text from PDFs that don't allow copying • Grabbing code snippets from tutorial images • Copying text from videos or presentations • Converting image-based documents to editable text • Searching for content you found in screenshots • Archiving text from legacy documents Why You'll Love Snapshot: • Lightning Fast — Text extraction in under 1 second. Faster than typing even short phrases. • Completely Private — All processing happens on your Mac using Apple's Vision framework. No data leaves your device. Ever. • Works Offline — No internet required. Use it on planes, in secure environments, or anywhere. • One-Click Workflow — Press the hotkey, select the area. Done. No menus, no extra steps. • Multi-Language — Supports English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and more. • Native macOS Design — Lives in your menu bar. Feels like it's part of macOS. • Customizable — Change the keyboard shortcut, adjust OCR (Optical Character Recognition) accuracy, enable notifications. Technical Details: • Uses Apple's Vision framework for accurate on-device OCR (Optical Character Recognition) • No subscriptions, no in-app purchases, no data collection • Menu bar app that stays out of your way with a customizable keyboard shortcut • Fast OCR mode: ~0.1-0.3 seconds • Accurate OCR mode: ~0.5-1 second • Supports retina displays • macOS 13.0 or later Privacy You Can Trust: Snapshot processes everything locally on your Mac. We don't: • Collect any data • Send screenshots to the cloud • Track your usage • Store your extracted text • Require an account You can even use it on air-gapped systems. Your privacy is guaranteed because we never see your data. Developer Story: Snapshot was born from a simple frustration: needing to copy/paste text that you can't click and drag on. Typing out things manually was tedious and error-prone. So we built Snapshot to make this instant. During development for this app, using Snapshot was helpful for pasting error messages (which sometimes don't allow click-and-drag to copy) into AI-coding tools to debug. If you've ever wished you could just "copy" text from an image, this app is for you. --- Made by Weitzman Labs LLC in NYC.