Screenshot Text
Copy and paste text from youtube videos
Screenshot Text launched on June 16, 2026 with 4 votes, #3,322 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
A Mac menu-bar app that turns anything on your screen into clean text on your clipboard in one keystroke: copy text from a video, PDF, or image. On-device OCR plus a local open-source AI. 100% private, no account, works offline. Built to keep the flow when following along coding tutorials. Standard OCR fails on code, OCR paired with light weight coding model works flawlessly. 100% private, works offline, no account. Generous lifelong free tier, $49 to unlock unlimited for life.
A Mac OCR app that copies text and code from any screenshot, video, or PDF in one keystroke. On-device recognition plus a local AI that fixes code formatting. 100% private, no account, works offline.
Works for any text, and exceptional with code. One keystroke turns anything on screen into clean, paste-able text: a video, a PDF, an image. No extra windows, no uploading, no converting, just paste it like magic. All on your Mac. No cloud, no account. Pause any video and press ⌘⇧7 to highlight the code you want to copy. Now it's on your clipboard. Press ⌘V to paste into your editor. You don't need to retype the parts you already understand. Screenshot the boilerplate you've written a hundred times, paste it in a keystroke, and spend your focus on the concepts that are actually new. Screenshot the imports, setup, and scaffolding you already know cold. ⌘⇧7, drag, ⌘V. It lands on your…from screenshottext.com
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