Screenshots you can copy text from
Readshot captures a region, a window, or a whole scrolling page, reads the text with on-device OCR, and keeps a searchable history. Nothing leaves your Mac.
Free and open source. macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon or Intel.
Or install from Terminal
curl -fsSL https://readshot.pawanpaudel.com.np/install.sh | bash
curl -fsSL
https://readshot.pawanpaudel.com.np/
install.sh | bash
Copied text
Ship offline OCR to all users by October 14.
Scrolling capture: stitch pages up to 40 frames.
What it does
- Capture
- Grab a region, a window, or a full display from the menu bar or a global hotkey. Works across multiple monitors.
- Scrolling capture
- Lock a region, scroll the page, and Readshot stitches the frames into one tall image.
- Annotate
- Arrows, shapes, text, pen, highlighter, blur, pixelate, and crop, with undo and redo.
- Copy and search text
- Apple Vision reads the text on your Mac. Copy it right away, or find any past capture by what it says.
Automation
CLI
Use Readshot from shell scripts for capture, OCR, clipboard output, delay timers, and image format conversion.
readshot capture --interactive -o capture.png
readshot capture-text --interactive --clipboardMCP
Connect agent clients to local screenshot, OCR, window capture, and history search tools over stdio.
readshot mcp-config
readshot-mcp --check