Offline Screenshot OCR

Readshot

Capture regions or scrolling pages, annotate screenshots, copy recognized text, and search local history. No image data leaves your Mac.

curl -fsSL https://readshot.pawanpaudel.com.np/install.sh | bash curl -fsSL
https://readshot.pawanpaudel.com.np/
install.sh | bash

Features

Capture

Menu-bar capture, global hotkey, window capture, and multi-monitor support.

Scrolling capture

Lock a region, scroll the page, and Readshot stitches the frames into one tall image.

Edit

Arrows, shapes, pen, highlighter, blur, pixelate, crop, undo, and redo.

Search

Apple Vision OCR indexes captures locally for searchable history.

Automation

CLI

Use Readshot from shell scripts for capture, OCR, clipboard output, delay timers, and image format conversion.

readshot capture --interactive -o capture.png --json
readshot completions zsh

Read CLI documentation

MCP

Connect agent clients to local screenshot, OCR, window capture, and history search tools over stdio.

readshot mcp-config
readshot-mcp --check

Read MCP documentation