Copy text from a screenshot — or anything on screen
Text trapped in an image, a PDF, a video frame, or a window you can't select? Shotcrisp reads it and drops it on your clipboard — from an area, a window, or the whole screen.
Grab text from anywhere on screen
Assign a shortcut and pull text straight off the screen — an area you draw, a window, or the whole display. It runs the Mac's on-device text recognition, so it reads code, error messages, and prose that no cursor can select.
Or hover and grab a single line
In the editor, the Grab Text tool highlights individual lines as you hover — click to copy that line, or redact it on the spot if it's something you'd rather cover than keep.
Private by design
Recognition happens on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded to a server to read your screen — the text goes to your clipboard and nowhere else.
Frequently asked questions
Does the OCR happen on-device?
Yes — Shotcrisp uses the Mac's built-in text recognition. Nothing is uploaded anywhere; the text lands on your clipboard and that's it.
What can it read?
Anything rendered on screen: code and error messages, text in images and PDFs, paused video frames, windows that don't allow selection.
Which languages does it support?
The same languages macOS's on-device text recognition supports — recognition quality tracks the system, so it improves with macOS itself.