Show HN: CopyLasso, a free local screen OCR app for macOS

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Found: August 19, 2026
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Show HN: CopyLasso, a free local screen OCR app for macOS 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/copylasso

Feedback and ideas for features to add appreciated!

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