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A Mac menu-bar app that turns anything on your screen into clean text on your clipboard in one keystroke: copy text from a video, PDF, or image. On-device OCR plus a local open-source AI. 100% private, no account, works offline. Built to keep the flow when following along coding tutorials. Standard OCR fails on code, OCR paired with light weight coding model works flawlessly. 100% private, works offline, no account. Generous lifelong free tier, $49 to unlock unlimited for life.
Screenshot Text came from one specific, recurring annoyance: copying code from YouTube tutorials.
I learn by following coding tutorials, and I'm constantly pausing a video to grab a few lines into my editor. Every OCR/screenshot tool I tried sucked, good at standard text but bad at code.
Turns out OCR alone can't fix this. The pixels are genuinely ambiguous. So Screenshot Text does two passes: on-device OCR reads the text, then a small code-aware AI model (Qwen2.5-Coder, running entirely on your Mac) repairs it — restoring indentation, straightening quotes, rejoining wrapped lines, putting brackets back. The result is code you can paste straight into your editor and run.
Hit ⌘⇧7, drag a box over a YouTube tutorial... clean code lands on your clipboard.
Two things I care about: • Privacy, there's no server. OCR and the AI both run locally. Nothing you capture ever leaves your machine. No account, works on a plane. • No subscriptions — free to try (5 captures/day forever, AI included), $49 once for unlimited. That's it.
Honestly, it started as a way to flex the execution muscle, actually ship the thing instead of planning it forever, and to keep learning from tutorials line by line instead of letting AI type every keystroke for me.
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About Screenshot Text on Product Hunt
“Copy and paste text from youtube videos”
Screenshot Text was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #158 on the daily leaderboard. A Mac menu-bar app that turns anything on your screen into clean text on your clipboard in one keystroke: copy text from a video, PDF, or image. On-device OCR plus a local open-source AI. 100% private, no account, works offline. Built to keep the flow when following along coding tutorials. Standard OCR fails on code, OCR paired with light weight coding model works flawlessly. 100% private, works offline, no account. Generous lifelong free tier, $49 to unlock unlimited for life.
Screenshot Text was featured in Productivity (655.7k followers), Artificial Intelligence (473.1k followers), Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) and Vercel Day (20 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 253.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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Michael Lewis
Screenshot Text came from one specific, recurring annoyance: copying code from YouTube tutorials.
I learn by following coding tutorials, and I'm constantly pausing a video to grab a few lines into my editor. Every OCR/screenshot tool I tried sucked, good at standard text but bad at code.
Turns out OCR alone can't fix this. The pixels are genuinely ambiguous. So Screenshot Text does two passes: on-device OCR reads the text, then a small code-aware AI model (Qwen2.5-Coder, running entirely on your Mac) repairs it — restoring indentation, straightening quotes, rejoining wrapped lines, putting brackets back. The result is code you can paste straight into your editor and run.
Hit ⌘⇧7, drag a box over a YouTube tutorial... clean code lands on your clipboard.
Two things I care about: • Privacy, there's no server. OCR and the AI both run locally. Nothing you capture ever leaves your machine. No account, works on a plane. • No subscriptions — free to try (5 captures/day forever, AI included), $49 once for unlimited. That's it.
Honestly, it started as a way to flex the execution muscle, actually ship the thing instead of planning it forever, and to keep learning from tutorials line by line instead of letting AI type every keystroke for me.