screen-snip-ocr
Screen capture utility with OCR text extraction from selected areas
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GITHUB · launched Oct 29, 2026 · 82 upvotes (top 22%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
- activator
- cryptlex
- ocr
- pyinstaller
- pyqt5
- python
- +2 more
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Yes Screen capture with region selection and OCR is a small desktop utility. It can be assembled from standard OS screenshot APIs and an existing OCR engine such as Tesseract or Windows OCR.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #241 of 1252 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 363 days after the earliest competitor.
- CPU-only fast OCR for screenshots, images, PDFs, webpages · hn · 2026-05-31 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- OpenScreenShot: open-source full-page screenshot and annotation tool · hn · 2026-07-09 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- scan-sim · github · 2026-10-03 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- indra · github · 2026-10-13 · 550 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- LumaShot · github · 2026-09-27 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- BetterCapture · hn · 2026-02-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- OCR Buddy: local browser OCR for code, formulas (LaTeX) and tables · hn · 2026-07-07 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- PixText · github · 2026-10-22 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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