Capture / Copy text from images

Copy text out of anything on screen.

An error dialog, a slide in a video call, a mock-up, a frame of a video. Capture it, choose Copy text, and paste the words wherever you need them.

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From any capture

Area, window, full screen or a scrolling page. Copy text is right there in Quick Access and in the screenshot editor.

Accurate

Apple’s Vision text recognition at its accurate level, with language correction on.

On this Mac

Recognition runs locally, so a screenshot of a client’s dashboard is never sent to a server to be read.

Everything in Copy text from images

9 tools, styles and options, all included.

CopySaveEditPinCopy text

Where you’ll find it

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Quick Access
Copy text, right after any capture
Screenshot editor
Copy text (OCR) in the action bar

Where it saves time

Most text on screen can’t be selected. Error messages, video frames, images in docs and other people’s screen shares are all just pixels until you capture them.

  • Paste an exact error string into a bug report
  • Lift a quote from a page into your script
  • Grab copy from a design to check it
Good for
Error messagesInto the bug report, exactly
Video framesText from a paused video
Screen sharesA slide someone else is showing
DesignsCopy from a mock-up

What it reads

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Anything Shotbox can capture.

An area or window
Error dialogs, settings, a frame of a video
A whole display
Everything on screen at once
A scrolling page
Long pages and threads
CAPTURE
card_declined (402): The card was declined.
→
CLIPBOARD
card_declined (402): The card was declined.
✓Text copied

How it works

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Accurate recognition
Apple’s Vision text recognition at its accurate level
Language correction
Fixes likely misreadings as it goes
On this Mac
The image is never sent anywhere to be read
To the clipboard
Paste the words wherever you need them
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For software teams

Paste the exact error a customer saw straight into the ticket.

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For client work

Pull copy from a client’s screens into a script or a review without retyping it.

Works well with
ScreenshotsArea, window or full screen, with a pixel loupeLearn more →Scrolling captureA whole page or long chat as one imageLearn more →AnnotateArrows, boxes, blur, text and backdropsLearn more →
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