TextSniper

Discover lightning-fast text recognition on your Mac. TextSniper is an application that can extract text from any selected area on your screen. Forget about taking notes manually — install the textsniper app for capturing and saving the most important information instantly.

Extract text from graphics, documents, or videos

For TextSniper, nothing is beyond recognition. The application leverages advanced OCR technology for instant text extraction from any region on your Mac screen. Whether it is an online presentation, a YouTube video, a graphic image, or a PDF document — use textsniper mac to turn virtually anything into fully editable text that you can work with right away.

As simple as copy and paste

To extract text, simply press Cmd+Shift+2 and select any area of your screen. TextSniper will automatically recognize all the text within the captured region and copy it straight to your clipboard. Then, use the familiar Cmd+V shortcut to paste the text wherever you need it. You can also customize the keyboard shortcut combination if you prefer a different one.

Keep what matters most

The textsniper macos utility essentially helps you avoid unnecessary clutter by quickly capturing only the most essential information. Save text as a continuous paragraph or preserve the original line breaks as they appear. TextSniper even offers a text-to-speech conversion feature, so the application can read the captured content aloud for you.

Accessible from the menu bar

You can launch textsniper directly from the macOS menu bar to start capturing or to adjust specific settings (change keyboard shortcuts or enable the option to preserve line breaks when copying text). The rest of the time, the application stays completely out of your way and remains unobtrusive, running quietly in the background without any interruptions.