TextSniper for Mac

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TextSniper is a handy text extraction tool for Mac computers. This tool allows you to extract text from various images and digital sources. At an affordable one-off payment, you can start clipping text from YouTube videos, PDFs, screencasts and more. With the free trial, you can test out the app before buying.

TextSniper is reminiscent of Droplr and is stocked full of different features and capabilities. It’s so popular that it has been featured on 9to5Mac, MacRumors and The 8-Bit. TextSniper even won the Mac Life Editors Choice award. You won’t even know that you need this app for Mac until you’ve used it. However, by then, there will be no going back. 

Easy to use

Working with this app is simple. Once installed, you will find a ‘Capture Text’ icon in your menu bar. Whenever you need to extract text from an image, you simply click on this icon. Next, you drag a selection area where you want to extract the text, and the tool will recognize the text and copy it to your clipboard. Then, you can paste it to your Notes, Editor or another program.

Useful features

TextSniper can extract text from seemingly impossible sources such as videos, online courses and web pages. Using advanced OCR technology, this tool recognizes text instantly, so it’s incredibly fast. 

You can even have your Mac read text aloud from the image with this tool. This is useful for those learning a foreign language or who have trouble reading information from their screens. TextSniper even contains a QR code, a barcode reader, and can capture, extract and convert text to any of these types of snaps.

Supported languages

The Mac Catalina OS currently only supports English. The Big Sur version of Mac supports more languages including English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese. Having the app support many different languages is valuable when working or extracting text in them.

Extract text easily

TextSniper for Mac is a useful paid app that allows you to extract text from various mediums, such as videos and digital images. The app also has a free trial version so that you can test it out before buying.