Productivity
TextSnap
Paste a screenshot, get clean Markdown, a table or text.
Get for Mac.dmg · 397 KB · or download .zip
- Category
- Productivity
- Requires
- macOS 13+
- Size
- 397 KB
- Price
- Free
Preview
About TextSnap
TextSnap turns a screenshot into clean text, a table or Markdown.
What it does
- Paste or drop. Press Cmd+V in the panel, drop an image, or click Paste from clipboard.
- On-device recognition. Uses the Vision text recognizer and the position of each word to rebuild rows and columns.
- Output modes. Markdown, Markdown table, TSV for spreadsheets, plain text, and a best-effort LaTeX conversion.
- Raw and Preview tabs, and a Copy button that puts the result on the clipboard.
Notes
The LaTeX mode converts common symbols, Greek letters and simple fractions. It does not understand a full equation layout.
Information
- Developer
- SiliconDevKit (generated by AI from a prompt)
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
- macOS 13 or later, Apple silicon. Apple silicon Macs only (M1 or later), not Intel
- Size
- 397 KB (.dmg)
- Version
- 1.0
- Price
- Free
- Signing
- Ad-hoc signed, not notarized
The prompt behind it
This app was generated from the prompt below. Paste it into SiliconDevKit to build your own version, then change it however you like.
Build a menu bar app called TextSnap that turns screenshots into clean text. Clicking the menu bar icon opens a floating panel. Pressing Cmd+V in it (or dropping an image, or clicking Paste from clipboard) reads an image from the pasteboard and runs the Vision framework text recognizer (VNRecognizeTextRequest, accurate level, language correction on). Use the bounding boxes to rebuild the layout: detect rows and columns and offer an output mode picker with Markdown (headings, lists and paragraphs inferred from text size and position), Markdown table, TSV for spreadsheets, Plain text, and LaTeX (a best-effort conversion of math symbols, fractions written as a/b, superscripts and Greek letters). Show a Raw tab with monospaced text and a Preview tab with the rendered result, and a Copy button that puts the result on the clipboard. Everything runs locally.
Opening it for the first time
- Open the .dmg and drag TextSnap onto the Applications folder.
- Open it from Applications. macOS may say it can’t check the app for malicious software. Click Done.
- Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. This is needed once. Why this happens. To share an app without the warning, see how to notarize it.
