Screen OCR Pro
Copy text from your screen
Only for Mac
$5.99
Mac
Press a shortcut, select an area, copy recognized text instantly. Works on images, PDFs, videos, and unselectable UI. 100% local OCR. No cloud. No account.
Copy text from anywhere on your screen.
Text Shot Pro lets you grab text from screenshots, videos, scanned PDFs, slides, dialogs, websites, and apps where text cannot be selected. Press a global shortcut, drag to select an area, and the recognized text is copied to your clipboard.
Everything runs locally on your Mac. No uploads. No cloud processing. No account.
How it works
1. Press ⇧⌘T (or choose Capture Text from the menu bar)
2. Drag over the text you want
3. Text Shot Pro reads it on-device and copies it to your clipboard
Perfect for
- Error messages and log output
- Text inside images and screenshots
- Video subtitles and slides
- Scanned PDFs and documents
- UI labels in apps that block copy/paste
- Chat threads, tables, and dialogs
Options
- Keep line breaks or copy as one paragraph
- Detect links, emails, and phone numbers
- Review and edit text before copying
- Recent captures stored locally (optional)
Privacy
- On-device OCR via Apple Vision
- No network access
- No analytics
- Your text never leaves your Mac
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Part of The Beaver Tools — a collection of focused Mac utilities.
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The developer, Christian Ahrweiler, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Christian Ahrweiler
- Size
- 1.9 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 15.7 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 15.7 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2025 by Chris Ahrweiler
