toCopy
Select on screen. Get plain text.
What it does
toCopy is a lightweight macOS menu bar app that turns anything on your screen into text — instantly, without switching apps. Drag to select, and it's already on your clipboard. What's different: most screen-OCR tools stop at plain text. toCopy also decodes QR codes and barcodes on the spot, and a second hotkey captures content in Markdown — preserving structure instead of flattening it into one paragraph. Runs entirely on-device — no accounts, no uploads, no network calls. Free.
toCopy reads any area of your Mac screen with on-device OCR and puts the text on your clipboard. No accounts, no network calls.
Drag over anything — a headline, a label, a paragraph in a screenshot someone sent you — and toCopy puts the text on your clipboard. No retyping, no separate app to open. Code 128, EAN, UPC and more — decoded straight to plain text. toCopy lives in the menu bar. Trigger it with a shortcut, and the rest happens where you're already looking. Drag over any region on screen — the selection works over any app, any window. On-device OCR reads the selection and copies the result the moment you release the drag. It's plain text on the system clipboard — ⌘V into Notes, Slack, your editor, anywhere. Recognition runs locally. There's no server in the loop, no account to create, nothing to configure…from tocopy.eatnows.com
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