TextSnap

About

TextSnap — Screenshot to Text, Instantly.

Draw a box. Get the text. That's it.

TextSnap is the fastest way to copy text from anything on your screen. Just click the icon, drag a rectangle over any text — in a video, PDF, image, or locked webpage — and it appears instantly in an editable panel, ready to copy.

🔒 100% Offline & Private
→ All OCR runs inside your browser using Tesseract.js
→ No screenshots ever leave your device
→ No account, no API key, no subscription — forever free

🎯 One Click, Any Text
→ Works on any Chrome tab — streaming sites, PDFs, paywalled pages
→ Draw, extract, copy in under 3 seconds
→ Re-capture instantly without closing the panel
→ Edit extracted text before copying

📋 Built-in History
→ Every extraction saved locally — never lose your work
→ Right-click the icon to browse your full history
→ Remove individual items or clear all with one tap

🌍 Multilingual
→ UI available in 13 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Turkish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Russian
→ Recognizes text in 100+ languages automatically

✨ Material Design 3 UI
→ Clean, draggable floating panel
→ Smooth animations, accessible keyboard navigation
→ Looks great on any webpage at any zoom level

🎓 Perfect for:
• Students — grab text from lecture slides and locked PDFs
• Developers — copy code from screenshots
• Researchers — pull quotes from images and scanned pages
• Professionals — digitize invoices, business cards, printed reports
• Content creators — extract text from video thumbnails and mockups

❓ FAQ

Q: Does it work offline?
A: Yes — fully. Processing happens entirely inside Chrome. No internet needed after installation.

Q: What languages can it recognize?
A: 100+ including English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, Russian, and more.

Q: Is my data private?
A: Completely. History is stored only in your local browser (chrome.storage.local). Nothing is ever sent to any server.

Q: Does it work on all websites?
A: Yes — any Chrome tab, including paywalled, video, and document sites.

Q: Is it free?
A: 100% free. No ads, no tracking, no limits.

🚀 Install TextSnap and never retype a screenshot again.