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GrabText
Extract text from anywhere on your Windows screen
Lens Text is a Windows desktop tool that lets you extract text from anywhere on your screen. Press Ctrl+Shift+X, select an area, and copy text from error dialogs, videos, screenshots, and otherwise unselectable PDFs. Collect multiple snippets with Multi-select mode, or use Scroll mode to gather text across long pages. Powered by a multi-engine OCR fallback system, with high-DPI and multi-monitor support.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm excited to share **Grab Text**, a little Windows utility I've been building to solve a problem that kept annoying me.
Sometimes you need to copy text from an error dialog, a video frame, a screenshot, or a PDF that won't let you select anything. Instead of retyping it manually, I wanted a simple shortcut that could grab text from anywhere on the screen.
So I built Lens Text.
🔍 **What you can do with it:**
- Press `Ctrl+Shift+X` and drag over any area to extract text.
- **Multi-select:** collect snippets from different parts of the screen and copy them all together.
- **Scroll mode:** gather text across a long, scrolling page without losing previously collected snippets.
- Use a cascading OCR system with RapidOCR, Windows OCR, and Tesseract.js as fallbacks.
The OCR itself was only part of the challenge. Getting selection coordinates right across high-DPI displays and multiple monitors, and preserving collected text across scrolls, took considerably more work than I initially expected.
I built Lens Text with Electron, Node.js, and a persistent Python worker. It's my attempt to turn a small everyday annoyance into a useful desktop tool.
🚀 **I'd love your feedback!**
What would you improve? Are there any text-extraction workflows or features you'd like to see added?
Source code and Windows installer: https://github.com/saurabhkushwa...
Thanks for checking it out!
About GrabText on Product Hunt
“Extract text from anywhere on your Windows screen”
GrabText was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 1 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #145 on the daily leaderboard. Lens Text is a Windows desktop tool that lets you extract text from anywhere on your screen. Press Ctrl+Shift+X, select an area, and copy text from error dialogs, videos, screenshots, and otherwise unselectable PDFs. Collect multiple snippets with Multi-select mode, or use Scroll mode to gather text across long pages. Powered by a multi-engine OCR fallback system, with high-DPI and multi-monitor support.
On the analytics side, GrabText competes within Productivity, Open Source, User Experience and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how GrabText performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted GrabText?
GrabText was hunted by Saurabh Kushwaha. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of GrabText including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Saurabh Kushwaha