SnipFast – Extract Highlighted Text from Physical Books
Hi HN, I built SnipFast - a tool that helps you extract important text from an image of a page. If you’ve ever highlighted sections in a physical book and wanted to save or organize them digitally, SnipFast can help. This came from my own frustration. I like to note down ideas when reading, but doing that from physical books was time-consuming. I looked for a tool to solve this, didn’t find one, so I built it. SnipFast lets you: - Automatically detect and extract highlighted text from a page photo (works with most highlighter pens and languages) - Click on sentences in the image to manually…
SnipFast – Extract Highlighted Text from Physical Books launched on April 25, 2025 with 10 votes, #3,208 of 7,818 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
SnipFast is a tool that extracts highlighted text from photographs of book pages and converts it to digital format. It automatically detects most highlighter pen marks across multiple languages, with an option to manually select specific sentences for extraction. The software targets readers, students, and researchers who annotate physical books and want to digitize their notes. It uses a custom machine learning model for highlight detection and runs on a Kotlin backend with a Postgres database.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
SnipFast lets you capture highlighted text, summarize pages with AI, and extract key insights effortlessly — making learning from physical books as easy as reading on an e-reader.
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN, I built SnipFast - a tool that helps you extract important text from an image of a page. If you’ve ever highlighted sections in a physical book and wanted to save or organize them digitally, SnipFast can help. This came from my own frustration. I like to note down ideas when reading, but doing that from…
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