SnapText — Screenshot to Text

Select any region of a page, or upload an image or PDF, and copy the text it contains.

SnapText — Screenshot to Text Stop retyping what's already on your screen. SnapText lets you drag a selection over any part of any webpage — a table, a code block, a scanned image, a UI screenshot, a PDF preview — and instantly extracts every word from it. No copy-pasting. No manual transcription. Just select and read. ── How it works ────────────────────────── 1. Click the SnapText icon in your toolbar 2. Click "Capture Region" — your popup closes and a crosshair appears 3. Drag to select any area on the page 4. Text is extracted and copied to your clipboard automatically That's it. No forms. No upload dialogs. No waiting. ── Two OCR engines. You choose. ────────── ▸ Claude Vision (recommended) Powered by Anthropic's Claude — the most accurate OCR available. Handles complex layouts, mixed fonts, handwriting, math, tables, and code. Requires a free Anthropic API key. ▸ Tesseract.js (offline mode) Runs entirely inside your browser. No internet required after the first load. No API key. Great for privacy-sensitive content or when you're offline. ── What it's great for ─────────────────── ✓ Copy text from images and screenshots ✓ Extract data from tables and charts ✓ Grab code from screencasts or tutorials ✓ Read locked PDFs displayed in the browser ✓ Transcribe handwritten notes ✓ Pull contact info from photos ✓ Digitize scanned documents ✓ Capture text from videos (pause and capture) ── Privacy first ────────────────────────── Your API key is stored locally in your browser and never leaves your device except when making a direct call to Anthropic's API. No analytics. No tracking. No servers in between. History is stored locally and you can clear it anytime. ── No subscription. No account. ─────────── SnapText is free to use with Tesseract (offline mode) right away. For Claude Vision, you only need a free Anthropic API key — pay only for what you use, at Anthropic's standard rates (typically fractions of a cent per capture). Get your free API key at console.anthropic.com ──────────────────────────────────────── Try it on any page in 30 seconds. Click "Add to Chrome" to get started. What's new? v1.1.0 — Complete rewrite with 99-test coverage. Fixed capture flow reliability, added re-injection guard for repeated captures, improved error messages, and validated all OCR pipelines. Tesseract offline mode now works fully CSP-compliant with locally bundled libraries. screenshot to text OCR extension image to text Claude Vision copy text from image text extractor screenshot OCR Tesseract offline OCR screen capture text