Transform any text on your Mac screen into editable, copyable text in seconds. No more manual retyping from sources that won't let you copy text normally.
 Capture text from any app, game, PDF, image, or video with a simple click and drag.
 Scan QR codes and convert any text to speech - all from your screen.
 Editors' Choice Award from the Mac App Store. 
Featured in the "Copy the Uncopyable", "Indispensable Affordable Apps", and "Snap Screenshots Like a Pro" editorials of the Mac App Store. Reviewed by Macworld, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, MacStories, Wired, and many others. Macworld: "[...] TextSniper's text extraction rivals or exceeds that of some trillion-dollar companies. Its accuracy [...] ranks it higher than Adobe Acrobat and Google Docs." 9to5Mac: "TextSniper is a new Mac app I wish I'd had years ago. [...] The combination of speed and accuracy [...] makes it a no-brainer for any Mac user." MacStories: "[...] you need TextSniper, the premier Mac utility for copying the uncopyable. The app is fast, accurate [...] and works with multiple languages." iMore: "This text-grabbing tool is the Mac app you didn't know you needed. [...] TextSniper makes the whole process really easy and intuitive." Pocket-lint: "[...] a simple yet powerful utility that allows you to extract text from anywhere in macOS. [...] TextSniper is great when pulling text from images, PDFs, videos, and even macOS." MacHow2: "If you just want to quickly grab some text [...] TextSniper is a great little OCR app. [...] The closest thing to having a screenshot tool just for grabbing text from anything." The Next Web: "Thankfully, I came across TextSniper — a Mac app that lets you extract text from non-selectable sources such as YouTube videos, PDFs, photos, or presentations."


 Use Cases: • Convert image to text regardless of file format (JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, etc.) • Extract text from non-searchable PDFs without processing the entire document. • Copy text from images, PDFs, photos, Zoom meetings, and video content. • Grab uncopyable text from ebooks, web articles, and mobile apps. • Quickly extract emails, links, and phone numbers from any application. • Capture text or convert to speech in video games and streaming apps. • Scan QR codes and barcodes directly from Mac. • Generate alt text from screenshots for social media. • Extract text from locked PDFs and read-only applications. 
Features: • On-device OCR technology – no internet connection required. • Instant text recognition from any app, game, or screen content. • All text is saved to the Mac clipboard and can be pasted anywhere. • High accuracy even with tiny text on low-quality images. • Vertical text recognition (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages). • Customizable keyboard shortcuts for different extraction options. • Text-to-speech support for recognized content. • Use your iPhone or iPad camera to capture and transfer text instantly. • Fully compatible with macOS Tahoe and optimized for Apple Silicon (M1-M4 chips). 
Support over 25 languages: • macOS Catalina: English only. • macOS Big Sur & Monterey: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional). • macOS Ventura: All of the above, plus Japanese, Korean, Russian, Ukrainian. • macOS Sonoma: All of the above, plus Thai, Vietnamese. • macOS Sequoia: All of the above, plus Arabic, Najdi Arabic. • macOS Tahoe: All of the above, plus Turkish, Indonesian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Swedish.