SnipText is a screen capture OCR tool. Select a screen area, get text in the clipboard.
Useful for extracting text from images, PDFs, videos, or any non-selectable content without manual retyping.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Adaptive Ensemble OCR: Automatic selection between fast and accurate modes.
- Intelligent merging: Combines Tesseract and EasyOCR results using smart heuristics.
- Simple workflow: Hotkey → Select area → Text copied.
- Multi-language: Supports any Tesseract/EasyOCR language
- Works on Wayland and X11.
- GPU acceleration: Uses CUDA when available.
Website: github.com/dkorbelainen/sniptext
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Developer: dkorbelainen
License: MIT License
SnipText is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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