TextSniper

Overview

TextSniper is a powerful macOS app designed to simplify your digital workflow. With just a few clicks, you can capture any part of your screen and instantly convert it into text or speech. Perfect for quickly extracting information from images, documents, videos and more. TextSniper helps you save time and effort.

How it works

You can quickly convert an image to text (Optical Character Recognition) using a simple keyboard shortcut. First, launch the TextSniper app. Then, press Shift+Command+2 (⇧⌘2) or click the TextSniper icon in the menu bar and select the "Capture Text" option. Next, draw a rectangle around the area of the screen that you want to OCR. The text within the selection will be instantly recognised and copied to your clipboard. To paste it into any application—such as Notes, Pages, Safari, or social media—simply press Command+V (⌘V).

Core Features

• Extract text from anything displayed on your screen using advanced OCR technology.  
• Enjoy fast and accurate text recognition.  
• Automatically convert recognized text into speech with text-to-speech functionality.  
• Easily scan QR codes and barcodes.  
• Navigate a simple and user-friendly minimalistic interface.  
• Customise shortcuts for your convenience.  
• Privacy-focused: TextSniper does not collect any user data; all text recognition is processed locally on your Mac.  
• Offline mode: No internet connection is required.  
• Multi-lingual text recognition. 

Supported languages

TextSniper can recognize over 15 languages:

• Under macOS Catalina: English only.
• Under macOS Big Sur/Monterey: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional.
• Under macOS Ventura: All above + Japanese, Korean, Ukrainian and Russian.
• Under macOS Sonoma: All above + Cantonese Traditional and Simplified, Thai and Vietnamese.
• Under macOS Sequoia: All above + Arabic.

Vertical text recognition

• TextSniper recognizes vertically oriented Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text. This feature is currently available running TextSniper's latest version on macOS Sonoma and macOS Sequoia.

Pricing

TextSniper is available as a one-time purchase direct from the web and is priced at $7.99 for a one-Mac license. A license for use on up to three Macs is priced at $9.99.

TextSniper is also available via the Mac App Store for $11.99 and supports Family Sharing, giving up to six people access to the app.

Subscribers to SetApp can download TextSniper for free.