Search text inside screenshots on macOS

You screenshot a receipt, an error message, a slide — then later you need the text and you're squinting and retyping it. Clipboard Doctor reads the text in every screenshot you take and makes it instantly searchable.

macOS 13+ · 2-minute install guide

How it works

• Every image you copy or screenshot is added to your clipboard history automatically.
• Clipboard Doctor runs on-device OCR (Apple's Vision framework) over each one — recognizing Arabic and English text.
• The search box then matches that recognized text, so typing a word from inside a screenshot finds the image. No more scrolling through hundreds of pictures.

It never leaves your Mac

The OCR runs entirely on your device — no image is ever uploaded, and there's no account or telemetry. It's a clipboard manager built privacy-first; see the privacy page for exactly what does and doesn't leave your Mac (almost nothing).

Also a full clipboard manager

Beyond screenshot search, Clipboard Doctor keeps a deduplicated history of everything you copy, with pinning, tags, snippets, and a global hotkey (⌃⇧W) to bring it back. Free, offline, no subscription.

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