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Package managers
- Homebrew
brew install --cask textsniper
About TextSniper
TextSniper copies text that cannot normally be selected. Press Cmd+Shift+2 or choose Capture Text from the menu bar, select an area of the screen, and the recognised text is copied to the clipboard ready to paste.
It works on images, PDFs, videos, presentations, online meetings and webpages. It requires macOS Catalina or newer and runs on Apple Silicon Macs. It is sold as a one-time licence from the website or through the Mac App Store.
Strengths
- Text is copied to the clipboard with one shortcut
- Works on videos, images, PDFs and screen shares
- Low one-time price
Limitations
- macOS only
- Closed source
Details
- Pricing
- PaidLicences cost $7.99 for one Mac, $9.99 for three and $11.99 unlimited.
- License
- Proprietary
- Platforms
- macOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Mac users who often copy text from images, videos or PDFs
- Categories
- System utilities, Screen capture
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to TextSniper
Compare allSoftware that can replace TextSniper for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
NormCap
A screen capture tool that runs OCR on what you select, so you get the text rather than a picture of it.
NormCap is free and open source under GPL-3.0, runs on Linux, macOS and Windows with Tesseract OCR, though its macOS app is unsigned.
Shottr
Fast Mac screenshot tool with scrolling capture, OCR, and annotation.
Shottr is a freemium macOS screenshot tool that includes OCR text extraction alongside scrolling capture and annotation.
TextSniper as an alternative
Listings that name TextSniper as an alternative.
Text Grab
Grabs text out of any image, video frame or uncopyable part of a Windows app using on-device OCR, and puts it on the clipboard.
TextSniper moves OCR screen capture to macOS as a paid, closed-source app with a low one-time price, instead of free open-source Windows software.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
ScreenTranslator
A tray tool that captures part of the screen, reads the text with OCR and translates it.
ShareX
A Windows capture tool that screenshots, records, annotates and uploads, all driven by hotkeys.
HyperSnap
A Windows screen capture tool with scrolling capture, image annotation, OCR text copying and MP4 recording.
Xnapper
A macOS screenshot app that frames captures with backgrounds and hides sensitive information automatically.
CleanShot X
Premium Mac screenshot and screen recording app with built-in annotation.
