From screenshots to scanned documents, copy text with one click.
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No copy-paste gymnastics, no uploads, no waiting.
Hit Ctrl Shift X anywhere — in a video call, a PDF, a game or a photo. The screen dims, ready for your selection.
Select exactly the region you want. Multi-monitor and high-DPI displays are fully supported.
The recognized text is already on your clipboard. Ctrl V and you're done — usually under a second.
From quick screenshots to structured data extraction, Text Snip covers the
full workflow — no copy-paste gymnastics required.
Text Snip reads any text on your screen — even text you can't select, like dialogs, video frames, scanned PDFs and photos — and puts it on your clipboard instantly. Recognition runs locally, so it's fast and private.
Select a specific area to extract text only from the portion you need.
Instantly copy recognized text to the clipboard — keyboard shortcut included.
Recognize printed text in 100+ languages automatically.
Maintain line breaks, bullet lists and basic text structure.
Beautiful themes that adapt to your system preference.
Send a capture to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini — pre-filled and ready to summarize, fix or explain.
Convert tables from screenshots into clean, spreadsheet-ready rows and columns.
No daily caps, no watermarks, no nonsense — for Premium users.
Text recognition runs locally, using the OCR engine built into Windows. We never receive your screenshots, and we never see the text you capture — it goes straight to your clipboard. No uploads, no cloud processing, no telemetry. Read our privacy promise →
Windows can take a screenshot. Text Snip turns it into text — and a whole lot more.
Versus the built-in Windows Snipping Tool, which captures an image but can't turn it into editable, searchable text.
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Finally a tool that grabs text out of a screenshot in one shortcut. #textsnip
Copying tables out of PDFs used to take ages. Now it's a drag-and-paste. #textsnip
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Text Snip is Windows-only today. Drop your email and we'll tell you the moment the Mac version lands — no spam, just the one announcement.
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