PennyOCR Snip

Turn screenshots, charts, scans, and images into clean text or Markdown. Try 3 free snips monthly—no account needed.

Turn anything on your screen into editable text. PennyOCR Snip reads screenshots, charts, scanned documents, locked PDF viewers, slides, receipts, handwriting, and images in multiple languages. Draw a box around what you want, and the extracted text lands in your clipboard as clean Markdown or plain text. WHAT YOU GET • Snip any region with Option/Alt + Shift + P • Right-click an image to OCR it in place • Preserve tables and document structure as Markdown • Read handwriting, receipts, charts, CJK text, and difficult scans • Automatically copy each result to your clipboard • Search a private local history of your last 500 snips • Switch between Markdown and plain-text output TRY IT WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT Get 3 free snips each month with no sign-up. Sign in by email for 30 free snips per month and your first 100 API pages free. Additional usage is $0.75 per 1,000 pages. BUILT FOR PRIVACY Only the region or image you explicitly choose is sent to api.pennyocr.com. Snips are processed and discarded by default, never sold, and never used to train models. Your transcript, preferences, and API key stay in Chrome's local extension storage. PennyOCR Snip requests access only when you invoke it on the current tab. It does not read your browsing history and makes no network requests except to the PennyOCR API. Learn more, read the benchmark, and use the API at https://pennyocr.com