Copy text from anything on your screen.
Text in an image, a paused video, a locked dialog or a scanned PDF: select it and copy it. selectAnything turns your whole screen into selectable text.
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Release cadence: every 2 weeks Crash-free sessions: 99.92% Support: [email protected]
Features
Everything selectAnything does.
Draw to select
Drag over any region of your screen and the text inside it is ready to copy.
Images and video
Copy text from screenshots, photos, slides and paused video frames.
Any app, any window
Error dialogs, settings panes, design tools: if it's on screen, it's fair game.
Accurate recognition
Recognition keeps line breaks and spacing, so what you paste looks like what you saw.
Keyboard-first
Start a selection from anywhere with a shortcut, without opening another window.
Everyday
No more retyping
Error codes in a dialog, a quote in a screenshot, a URL in a video: selectAnything saves the minutes you spend copying text by hand.
- Error messages and serial numbers
- Text inside images and slides
- Captions and on-screen text in video
Requirements
What you need
- A Mac running a recent version of macOS
Does it work in every app?
selectAnything reads what is on screen, not what the app exposes, so it works with practically any window.
What can I copy?
Any visible text: in images, videos, PDFs, screenshots, and interface elements that normally block selection.
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