CapDrop
Turn the pages you own into one searchable PDF
CapDrop launched on June 9, 2026 with 4 votes, #3,322 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
CapDrop captures whatever's on your screen — course slides, ebook viewers, scanned pages — page by page, then OCRs each one locally and binds them into one searchable PDF you can Ctrl-F. 100% local, no uploads, no subscription. For content you own. Windows, $19 one-time, 7-day free trial.
CapDrop captures what's on your screen — course slides, ebook viewers, training portals — page by page, then binds everything into one searchable PDF with real OCR text. No file needed. $19 lifetime, 7-day free trial, Windows 10+.
Open it on screen. CapDrop auto-captures every page, turns it for you, and hands back one PDF you can Ctrl-F — even though there was never a file to download. Courses, ebooks, and training portals show you the content — but give you no file, no export, no Ctrl-F. CapDrop captures what’s on your screen, page by page, and binds it into a PDF you can Ctrl-F — even if no file ever existed. Open your course, ebook viewer, or training portal. Draw a box over the content area. Tell CapDrop which key turns the page. It presses it for you between every capture. Every page captured, cropped, OCR’d, and bound — one file you can Ctrl-F. Udemy, Coursera, company LMS — capture the slides as they play.…from capdrop.app
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