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NormCapTextSniper
Free

Free and open source under the GPL.

 Paid

Licences cost $7.99 for one Mac, $9.99 for three and $11.99 unlimited.

Windows, macOS, Linux macOS
  • Captures text rather than an image, straight to the clipboard
  • Tesseract recognition with support for many languages
  • Text is copied to the clipboard with one shortcut
  • Works on videos, images, PDFs and screen shares
  • The macOS application is unsigned and must be allowed manually on first start
  • The Linux AppImage is deprecated in favour of Flathub
  • macOS only
  • Closed source
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Closed source
License: GPL-3.0 License not stated
No account needed Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 21, 2026

Checked September 23, 2026

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