FastSnip

A simple, free and open source OCR screen capture tool for Windows. It allows users to grab text from anywhere on the screen with a quick hotkey.

Download FastSnip

Why I built this

I was looking for something like TextSniper (which is Mac-only) for Windows but couldn't find any good alternatives. So I decided to build one for myself.

What it does

• Press Ctrl+Shift+T to capture any area and extract text
• Works with multiple languages (English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.)
• Sits in your system tray, stays out of the way
• Copy extracted text with one click
• No installation needed - just download and run

How to use it

1. Download and run fastsnip.exe
2. Press Ctrl+Shift+T anywhere to capture
3. Done! The text is copied to your clipboard

Development

Want to build it yourself?

git clone https://github.com/louisho5/fastsnip.git
cd fastsnip
npm install
npm run dev

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Third-Party Licenses

This project uses the following third-party libraries:

Electron

• License: MIT License
• Source: https://github.com/electron/electron

Tesseract.js

• License: Apache License 2.0
• Source: https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js

Changelog

Version 0.2.0

Added support for automatic clipboard copying

Version 0.1.0

Initial release