Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages
Snap any image, screenshot, or webpage into plaintext. No GPU. No cloud. One command. - kouhxp/textsnap
Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages launched on June 5, 2026 with 19 votes, #876 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
This tool extracts text from screenshots, PDFs, and webpages using CPU-based processing that runs locally on users' devices. It's designed for anyone who needs to quickly convert images to readable text without uploading data to external servers. The local-first approach means faster processing and privacy by default, making it useful for developers, researchers, and professionals who regularly work with document images or web content.
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From the sources
Snap any image, screenshot, or webpage into plaintext. No GPU. No cloud. One command. textsnap screenshot.png That's it. You get a .txt next to your shell, recognized on your CPU, from a screenshot, a photo, an image URL, or even a webpage. # Install pip install textsnap # Snap something textsnap screenshot.png textsnap https://example.com/article --plaintext textsnap photo.jpg -o ~/notes/receipt.txt The first run downloads the model (~890 MB). Every run after is offline. Local files cover anything Pillow can decode: .png , .jpg , .jpeg , .webp , .bmp , .gif , .tiff , and friends. For webpage URLs, textsnap uses readability to isolate the main content, then picks the most prominent image on…from github.com
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