OCR SnipText that will not select
Error dialogs, video call slides, apps that block copying, a PDF viewer that pretends the page is a picture. If you can see it, you can screenshot it — and then you can copy it.
An error message, a chat you cannot copy from, a slide, a paragraph in a video call — the screenshot is already in your clipboard the moment you take it. Paste it here and the text is yours to copy. Nothing is saved, nothing is uploaded.
Low score — the text may be in the other language. Switch the language and paste again.
Win+Shift+S opens the snipping bar; drag over the text. The capture goes to the clipboard — come here and press Ctrl+V.
⌘+Ctrl+Shift+4 captures a region straight to the clipboard, without saving a file. Then ⌘+V here.
A screenshot you already saved works too: drop the file on the box above. Recognition happens on your machine either way; the image never leaves it.
Error dialogs, video call slides, apps that block copying, a PDF viewer that pretends the page is a picture. If you can see it, you can screenshot it — and then you can copy it.
An order number in a chat, an IBAN on a screen, a table in a presentation. Retyping is where the mistakes happen; a screenshot round-trip is faster and the confidence score says when to double-check.
A screenshot often shows more than the bit you need — names, balances, addresses in the corners. Because nothing here is uploaded, that is not a decision you have to make.
Two usual causes. The clipboard holds a file path rather than an image — that happens when you copy a screenshot file from a folder; drop the file on the box instead. Or the page is not focused: click anywhere on it once, then paste.
Really. Open the Network tab in your browser's developer tools and paste: no request carries the image. The engine and language files are downloaded from this site once — to you, not from you — and cached.
Screenshots are the best case for OCR: sharp type on a plain background. Expect near-perfect text on normal screen content. Very small type is enlarged before recognition, which helps more than you would think.
Same engine, on the image to text page — it is tuned for the same job but written for people who start from a photo or a scan rather than from the clipboard.
Yes, with no limit. The paid pass on this site is for the document converters, such as bank statements to Excel.