01 / DESKTOP
macOS 12+
- Capture
- System region picker (
screencapture) - OCR
- Apple Vision, in-process (objc2)
Requires Screen Recording permission. Builds are signed but not notarized; Gatekeeper may warn on first launch.
Screen-region OCR, on your device
Screen text.
Clipboard text.
Use the default shortcut Cmd/Ctrl + Alt + X or the tray menu, drag over a region, and ClipOCR copies the recognised text. OCR runs on your device. The app lives in your menu bar or system tray—not a main window.
macOS 12+ Windows 11 Linux (wlroots/Wayland)
01 / SELECT A REGIONILLUSTRATION, NOT APP UI
14:30→ copied to clipboard
The path
Select. Recognise. Paste.
- 01
Trigger a capture
Use the hotkey or the tray menu. On Wayland, bind
clipocr --capture-ocrin your compositor instead of relying on the in-app hotkey. - 02
Drag across the text
macOS uses its system region picker; wlroots/Wayland uses
slurpandgrim; Windows uses a native crosshair overlay. - 03
Paste what was recognised
Apple Vision, Tesseract or Windows.Media.Ocr processes the region locally. Recognised text is copied to your clipboard, ready to paste.
Network & privacy
Your text stays here.
Recognised text never leaves the device. There are no accounts, cloud OCR, capture history or analytics.
Optional update checks
ClipOCR's only network activity is an optional update check, starting with a GET to https://github.com/ and following HTTPS redirects only within GitHub and GitHub release-asset hosts. Checks happen when you ask or opt in to automatic checks. Automatic checks are off by default: daily after a successful check, with 6/12/24-hour backoff after failures (longer if GitHub requests it). Checks are deferred while a capture is active.
The GET carries no app version, platform or install identifier. GitHub sees your IP address. This is a check, not an automatic update: the app does not download, install or restart anything. If a newer version is available, you can open its GitHub release page.
As with any clipboard app, OS clipboard sync or clipboard managers you enable may retain or sync copied text; ClipOCR does not control them.
Compatibility
Built for your desktop.
Three capture paths. Three local OCR engines. Check the setup notes before downloading.
02 / DESKTOP
Windows 11
- Capture
- Native crosshair drag-to-select overlay, per monitor
- OCR
Windows.Media.Ocr(WinRT)
Requires the WebView2 runtime used by Tauri. The overlay cannot draw above elevated/admin apps. A drag cannot span monitors; it stays on the monitor where it began. A brief console flash at login is possible.
03 / DESKTOP
Linux wlroots / Wayland
- Capture
slurp+grim- OCR
- Tesseract (
tesseract-rs)
Hyprland, Sway and River. Install tesseract and the language data you need, plus grim and slurp. The in-app hotkey cannot fire on Wayland: bind clipocr --capture-ocr in the compositor. GNOME/KDE Wayland are not claimed.
Get ClipOCR
Download the latest release.
Choose the package for your system on GitHub. Every platform link opens the same latest release page, not a fixed version or a direct installer.
