# TextSniper

> Grab text from anything on screen, like videos, PDFs and images, and copy it to your clipboard

Source: https://optioncmd.com/textsniper
Website: https://textsniper.app/?utm_source=optioncmd
Pricing: One-time purchase
Categories: [Utilities](https://optioncmd.com/categories/utilities.md), [Screenshots & recording](https://optioncmd.com/categories/screenshots.md)
Listed: 2026-10-22
Updated: 2026-10-22

TextSniper is an OCR utility for Mac that copies text you can't normally select. Draw a box around text in a video, image, PDF, or app, and it's recognized and copied to your clipboard.

**Key features:**

- Press Command-Shift-2 or use the menu bar to select an area and copy its text.
- Recognize text on-device, with no internet connection required.
- Read QR codes and barcodes from your screen.
- Have your Mac read captured text aloud with text to speech.
- Set any keyboard shortcut to start a capture.
- Recognize languages including English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, depending on your macOS version.

TextSniper lives in the menu bar rather than the Dock. It's a one-time purchase: the website lists licenses from $7.99 for one Mac to $11.99 for unlimited Macs with a seven-day money-back guarantee, and the Mac App Store version costs $9.99 and requires macOS 12. It's also available through Setapp.

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