TextShot

Cross-platform tool that grabs text from a screen region via OCR and copies it to the clipboard.

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TextShot is a free, open-source tool that lets users draw a box around any part of their screen and instantly copies the text inside it to the clipboard, using Tesseract OCR with multi-language support. It works across Windows, macOS, and Linux and can be bound to a global hotkey for quick, repeated use.

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