Private by designOn-device OCR + AI

Grab any text on your screen

Name: Screenshot Text
Author: current_user_1

Works for any text, and exceptional with code. One keystroke turns anything on screen into clean, paste-able text: a video, a PDF, an image. No extra windows, no uploading, no converting, just paste it like magic. All on your Mac. No cloud, no account.

Buy lifetime for $39 Download free

Free: 5 captures a day · no account needed

Requires macOS 13+ on an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later)

Step 1

Screenshot text from any video

Pause any video and press ⌘⇧7 to highlight the code you want to copy.

export function useCart() {

const [items, setItems] = useState([])

const add = (p) => setItems([...items, p])

return { items, add }

}

11:42 / 28:06Coding tutorial

Step 2

Instantly paste into your editor

Now it's on your clipboard. Press ⌘V to paste into your editor.

export function useCart() { const [items, setItems] = useState([]) const add = (p) => setItems([...items, p]) return { items, add } }

For people learning to code

Finish coding tutorials twice as fast

You don't need to retype the parts you already understand. Screenshot the boilerplate you've written a hundred times, paste it in a keystroke, and spend your focus on the concepts that are actually new.

Skip the boilerplate

Screenshot the imports, setup, and scaffolding you already know cold.

Paste in a keystroke

⌘⇧7, drag, ⌘V. It lands on your clipboard clean and ready to run.

Learn what matters

Spend your attention on the new ideas, not on retyping code you already understand.

On-device AI

Optimised for code

Optimise for code pairs Apple's on-device OCR with the latest open-source AI model, Qwen2.5-Coder, running entirely on your Mac. It rewrites each capture into clean source: indentation restored, look-alike characters and quotes fixed, wrapped lines rejoined. Nothing ever leaves your device.

Indentation stays intact
Tabs, spaces, and line breaks come through exactly as written, so pasted code keeps its shape instead of collapsing into one line.
No more 0 vs O
Code mode knows a zero from a letter O and a 1 from an l (the look-alikes plain OCR trips on), so your code compiles the first time.
Capture from anywhere
Grab code from a paused video, a PDF, a screenshot, or any image on screen. If your Mac can show it, ⌘⇧7 can read it.
Runs on your Mac
OCR happens entirely on-device with Apple's Vision framework. No cloud, no account, and your code never leaves your machine.

Plain OCR

function useCart() {

const [items, setltems] = useState([])

const add = (p) => setltems([...items, p])

const key = ‘cart’

return { items, add }

}

Indentation lost“I” read as “l”Curly quotes

Fixed by on-device AI

Cleaned

function useCart() {

const [items, setItems] = useState([])

const add = (p) => setItems([...items, p])

const key = "cart"

return { items, add }

}

Runs entirely on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded.

Privacy

Private by design

Most OCR tools quietly send your screen to a server to read it. Screenshot Text has no servers at all. Every capture, and even the AI cleanup, runs entirely on your Mac.

100% on-device OCR
Text recognition runs on your Mac with Apple's Vision framework. Your screen is never uploaded, streamed, or stored anywhere.
Works fully offline
No servers, no cloud calls, no account. It works on a plane, behind a firewall, anywhere, because everything happens locally.
On-device AI, too
The optional AI cleanup runs the latest open-source model on your own machine. Even the smart stuff never sends your code off your Mac.
Nothing to leak
There's no database of your captures because there's nothing to collect. What you grab stays on your clipboard and your device.

Pricing

One price. Yours forever.

Everything works on the free plan, AI cleanup included. Pay once when you want unlimited. No subscription, no account.

Free

For the occasional capture.

5 captures a day
On-device AI cleanup included
All 14 OCR languages
Works offline, no account

Download free

Lifetime

$39once

Pay once, yours forever.

Everything in Free
Unlimited captures
Every future update included
No subscription, ever

Buy for $39

macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon · one-time payment · no account needed

Guides

Copy text and code from anything

Tested how-tos for videos, PDFs, screenshots and apps that block copying.

View all guides

Guide
Can't Copy Text From a PDF on Mac? Why It Happens and 4 Fixes
Preview won't select or copy text in your PDF? It's a scan, copy-restricted or broken. How to tell in ten seconds, and the fix for each one.
Mike27 Oct 2026
Guide
How to Copy Code From a Screenshot Without Breaking the Indentation
OCR turns code in screenshots into flat lines, breaking Python and JavaScript. Why it happens, the free fix, and how to copy code with indentation intact.
Mike26 Oct 2026
Guide
Does Mac Have OCR? Live Text and Preview Explained (and Their Limits)
Yes: macOS has built-in OCR called Live Text, in Preview, Photos and Safari. How to use it, where it fails (code, Chrome, Zoom) and what to use instead.
Mike25 Oct 2026

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Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about Screenshot Text.

Nothing leaves your Mac. Text recognition runs on-device with Apple's Vision framework, and the optional AI cleanup runs a local model. There are no servers, no account, and no analytics on your captures.

Every app that reads the screen needs it, including all the other screenshot tools. Screenshot Text uses it only to read the region you select. Nothing is recorded, streamed, or saved, and it works entirely offline.

Nothing is locked away. The free plan is the full app, AI cleanup included, capped at 5 captures a day. Lifetime is a one-time $39 payment that makes it unlimited and includes every future update. No subscription, ever.

Very good, with one setting. Turn on Optimize for code and a small AI model runs on your Mac after recognition: it restores the indentation plain OCR throws away and fixes broken brackets, quotes and look-alike characters. Use it for code only, and leave it off for ordinary text.

OCR works across 14 languages out of the box, including major European and CJK scripts. The language is auto-detected, so there's nothing to configure.

No. Download it and you're capturing. Buying Lifetime emails you a license key that you paste in once. It's verified entirely offline and carries across every update.