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CLUSTER TEXT-CLIPBOARD-OCR · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-01-24

Screen OCR to Clipboard

These utilities capture a selected screen region, run OCR to extract text, and copy the text to the clipboard. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from—only 4 dated entries exist, all before the index start. Traction is led by ocr-it with 399 stars, while SnapText and sniptext have 3 and 0 stars respectively.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

OCT 2025: 1JAN 2026: 1FEB 2026: 1MAY 2026: 1AUG 2026: 4OCT 2026: 1
OCT 2025OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 8 unlabelled

Operator · 3 hobby · 5 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01ocr-it399★1 molivehobbyBrowser extension that captures a pinned screen region and extracts text offline from paginated documents via OCR.
  2. 02SnapText3★5 dayslivehobbyWindows utility that captures any on-screen text with a hotkey, runs OCR locally, and copies the result to the clipboard.
  3. 03sniptext0★9 daysliveopen sourceDesktop screen region capture utility that extracts text from images via OCR and sends it to the clipboard.
  4. 04niri-ocr0★2 moliveopen sourceOCR text capture tool that extracts text from a selected screen region and copies it to the clipboard.
  5. 05oshot0★2 moliveopen sourceDesktop screenshot tool that captures screen regions and extracts text from images for immediate copying.
  6. 06deightshot0★1 mo—hobbyA Windows screenshot tool that captures regions, extracts text with OCR, and blurs or pixelates selections offline.
  7. 07ocr4linux-x110★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTool that extracts text from a selected screenshot area and copies it to the clipboard.
  8. 08omarchy-cmd-ocr0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop utility that captures a selected screen region, performs OCR to extract text, and copies the text to the clipboard.
  9. 09ScreenerQt0★unknownlivehand-codedScreenshot tool that selects a screen region for capture, then offers OCR text extraction, translation, Google search, and Imgur upload.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.