Copy text from the screen, a picture, or a video
Copy text reads the words in any part of the screen, a photo, a paused video, or a locked document, on your computer, and puts them on the clipboard.
01Press the shortcut
Copy text has a shortcut of its own: Alt+Shift+T on Windows and Linux, ⌃⌥T on a Mac, or the Copy text tile in Screenshots, the first section under Create & edit. It works in every program while ClipHearth runs, also when its window is closed and it sits in the tray. On Linux with Wayland, set a system shortcut for ClipHearth.Desktop --screenshot text.
02Drag over the words
The screen freezes under a thin overlay; drag a box over the text you want. ClipHearth reads it and puts it on the clipboard as text, ready to paste into a document, a search box, or a translator.
03Where selecting does not work
It reads text in a picture, a scanned page, a paused video, a slide shared in a meeting, an error message you cannot select, or a document that does not let you copy.
04On your computer
The reading happens on your computer and nothing is sent anywhere. A Mac uses the system's own text recognition; Windows and Linux use a recognition model built into ClipHearth that reads languages written in the Latin alphabet, English, Czech, German, French, and about 30 more. 32-bit Windows does not offer Copy text.
05Find a capture by its words
With Make it findable by its text under AFTER A CAPTURE, every screenshot is read the same way, and the search box in Screenshots finds it by any word in the picture. Copy text, like every screenshot, never counts as a trial task.
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