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NormCapTextSnatcher
Free

Free and open source under the GPL.

 Free

Free and open source under the GPL-3.0-or-later licence.

Windows, macOS, Linux Linux
  • Captures text rather than an image, straight to the clipboard
  • Tesseract recognition with support for many languages
  • Copy text from any area of the screen
  • Simple drag to select
  • The macOS application is unsigned and must be allowed manually on first start
  • The Linux AppImage is deprecated in favour of Flathub
  • Linux only
  • OCR accuracy depends on image quality
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: GPL-3.0 License: GPL-3.0-or-later
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 21, 2026

Checked October 1, 2026

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