Private screen OCR for Windows 10 & 11

Copy Text From Any Screenshot or Screen on Windows

Press Ctrl+Shift+X, select any screen area, and copy text from screenshots, images, scanned PDFs, videos and unselectable dialogs directly to your clipboard.

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Snip text
Ctrl+Shift+X
Paste last snip
Ctrl+V
Last capture just now

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog near the riverbank at dawn.

Local OCR, nothing uploaded OCR languages supported by Windows Free forever tier No auto-charge, 1-year Premium
How it works

Pixels to text in three steps.

No copy-paste gymnastics, no uploads, no waiting.

1

Press the shortcut

Hit Ctrl Shift X anywhere, in a video call, a PDF, a game or a photo. The screen dims, ready for your selection.

2

Drag a rectangle

Select exactly the region you want. Multi-monitor and high-DPI displays are fully supported.

3

Paste anywhere

The recognized text is already on your clipboard. Ctrl V and you're done, usually under a second.

Features

Everything you need to capture text.

From quick screenshots to structured data extraction, Text Snip covers the
full workflow, no copy-paste gymnastics required.

Core feature On-screen OCR in Text Snip

On-screen OCR

Grab text from any screen content you see, even unselectable stuff like videos, dialogs, and scanned docs. One click, instant clipboard copy, zero cloud uploads.

Premium Clipboard history in Text Snip

Clipboard History

Access and manage your full clipboard history of captured text.

Region Selection

Select a specific area to extract text only from the portion you need.

One-Click Copy

Instantly copy recognized text to the clipboard, keyboard shortcut included.

Multi-Language

Recognize printed text using OCR languages installed in Windows.

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Preserve Formatting

Maintain line breaks, bullet lists and basic text structure.

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Ask AI

Send a capture to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, pre-filled and ready to summarize, fix or explain.

Premium

Table Extraction

Convert tables from screenshots into clean, spreadsheet-ready rows and columns.

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Text to Speech

Listen to any snip read aloud with natural Windows voices.

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QR code and barcode scanning in Text Snip

QR Scanning

Scan QR codes and barcodes from your screen and convert them to links.

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Instant text translation in Text Snip

Instant Translation

Automatically translate captured text into your preferred language.

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Smart extraction of emails, phone numbers and links

Smart Extraction

Extract emails, phone numbers, and links from screenshots automatically.

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OCR language selection in Text Snip

Choose OCR Language

Select which language the OCR engine should prioritize for recognition.

Private local OCR processing on the Windows device

Your screenshots never leave your device.

Text recognition runs locally, using the OCR engine built into Windows. I never receive your screenshots, and I never see the text you capture: it goes straight to your clipboard. No uploads or cloud OCR, and no telemetry inside the desktop app. Read my privacy promise →

100% on-device OCR No analytics in the app Works offline
Why Text Snip

More than the Snipping Tool.

Windows can take a screenshot. Text Snip turns it into text, and a whole lot more.

Feature
Free
Premium
On-screen OCR
Unlimited
Unlimited
Region selection & one-click copy
✓
✓
OCR via Windows language packs
✓
✓
Clipboard history
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✓
QR & barcode scan to link
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✓
Ask AI, ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini
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✓
Text-to-speech reading
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✓
Advanced text tools
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✓
Instant translation
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✓
Smart extraction (emails & links)
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✓
Table extraction to spreadsheets
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✓
Choose your OCR language
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✓

Text Snip complements Windows capture tools with a direct global shortcut-to-clipboard workflow, plus optional history, QR scanning, table extraction and translation.

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