Launching today
Snapdown
Turn anything on your Mac screen into clean Markdown
89 followers
Turn anything on your Mac screen into clean Markdown
89 followers
Snapdown turns any part of your Mac screen into structured Markdown, preserving headings, lists, tables, and text instead of flattening everything into plain OCR. Capture with one shortcut, paste anywhere, and keep every screenshot local on Apple silicon.
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@bsuffern Hey Broden - good work! Tried it out and like it! Happily paid the license! Wishing you lots of success!!
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@supamca Thank you very much for the support! I’m happy to hear that you like it.
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The structure-preserving part is the bit that matters. I deal with a lot of scanned compliance documents, certificates, permits, inspection reports and every OCR tool I've tried turns a table of expiry dates into a paragraph of numbers with no way to tell which date belongs to which row.
Two questions: does Aggregate Mode handle a table that spans a scroll, where you capture it in two passes? And does running locally on Apple silicon mean it works on a machine with no network at all, that's a real constraint in some of the sites my users operate in.
Upvoted. Nice to see something shipped for a boring problem
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@fasathor Thank you for the support and for sharing that use case. That’s exactly where preserving the relationships between rows and values becomes important.
Currently, capturing a table in two passes with Aggregate Mode would produce two separate tables rather than stitching them together. A scrolling capture feature, where you select a region and scroll the document within it, could solve this and is something I’d like to explore in a future Snapdown update.
The Mac only needs an internet connection at the time of licence activation. Once activated, all OCR processing runs locally and Snapdown continues working without a network connection.
I hope that answers your questions. Thanks again for checking out Snapdown.
@bsuffern That answers both, thanks. Activation-only network is the right trade-off, and honest of you to say the two-pass stitching isn't there rather than fudging it.
Scrolling capture would make this properly useful for my case, a full-page inspection report never fits one screen. If you do build it, I'd happily be a test case with some genuinely ugly scanned documents.
Congrats on the launch.
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@fasathor Thank you, I appreciate it. If I add scrolling capture in a future Snapdown update, I’ll reach out. Testing it with genuinely difficult scanned documents would be very helpful.
Yeah Broden! Markdown era is here and you're a doing an amazing job on it. Congrats on this impressive launch
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@german_merlo1 Thank you very much for the support! I really appreciate the kind words.