Copy text from any image. Paste it anywhere.

Copy text you can't select

Grab the words from an image, a video, a dialog or an app that won't let you select them. They're read on your Mac and go straight to your clipboard.

1. Choose Copy Text (OCR) from the SimplyShot menu bar icon, or Copy Text in the All-in-One bar.
2. Drag over the text.
3. Paste it anywhere. SimplyShot shows Copied text to your clipboard.

Read QR codes and barcodes

Drag over a code and SimplyShot copies what's in it. A link is one click away, with no phone to dig out.

1. Choose Copy Text and drag over the code.
2. For a link, SimplyShot shows Copied link from QR code. Click Open to go there.
3. If there's text next to the code, click Copy Text to copy that instead.

Pick lines from a screenshot

Already took the shot? Select just the words you need, straight from the image, then copy them or hide them.

1. Open the screenshot in the editor and choose Copy Text.
2. Drag across the text you want.
3. Click Edit text… to fix the words and copy them, or Redact selected to hide them. Selected copies them as they are.

In Quick Access, right-click a screenshot and choose Copy Text to copy all of its text without opening it.