CopyLasso, a free local screen OCR app for macOS
Details
- External ID
- 49365721
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- CopyLasso, a free local screen OCR app for macOS
- Website domain
- copylasso.com
- Launched
- Aug. 19, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5309139784946236
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
Hi HN, I made CopyLasso for text you can see but can't select: things like scanned PDFs, text in videos, and text in screenshots.I was surprised to find only a few solutions for this that were all paid, so I made a free and open source version.CopyLasso is a native Swift app built with ScreenCaptureKit and Apple Vision. It's MIT-licensed, signed, and notarized.To use it, just press your keybind and draw a bounding box around the text you want to copy. The text is recognized locally and copied to your clipboard.Other features include copying QR codes and barcodes, multi-language recognition, and (if you opt-in) encrypted capture history.Source: https://github.com/bennetthilberg/copylassoFeedback and ideas for features to add appreciated!
Enrichment
- Theme
- desktop and macOS productivity utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- local screen ocr for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a native Swift utility that integrates standard macOS ScreenCaptureKit and Apple's built-in Vision framework for local OCR.
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Competitors
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Launched 294 days after the earliest competitor.
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- CaptoStudio · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- CopyPal · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- CopyClipOSS · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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