Textly: Capture Text & Tables
Capture Text & Tables from Anywhere on Your Mac
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Capture Text & Tables from Anywhere on Your Mac
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Stop retyping text and rebuilding tables. Textly makes it effortless to capture text from anywhere on your Mac, including images, videos, PDFs, and apps—even when text can't be selected or copied. Instantly extract tables while preserving rows and columns, export them to CSV, Markdown, or TSV, and translate captured text into different languages. Access and search your clipboard history anytime. One simple tool for all your text and table capture needs.
This is the 2nd launch from Textly: Capture Text & Tables. View more
Textly
Launched this week
Stop retyping text and rebuilding tables. Textly lets you instantly capture text from anywhere on your Mac — even when you can't select or copy it. Extract tables from screenshots, PDFs, videos, and apps while keeping rows and columns intact. Export to CSV, Markdown, or TSV, translate text instantly, and revisit previous captures with clipboard history. Just select an area, capture, and get back to what matters.
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Hey 👋
I'm the indie developer behind Textly, and I'm excited to share it with you!
Textly started from a simple frustration — seeing text or tables on my Mac screen but not being able to copy them. I kept wondering, why should I have to retype something that's already on my screen?
That's what inspired me to build Textly.
What began as a simple text capture tool has grown into something more — with table recognition that preserves rows and columns, instant translation, and searchable clipboard history.
I've put a lot of care into making Textly feel simple, fast, and truly native to macOS.
As an indie developer, your feedback means a lot. I'd love to know what you think and what I could improve.
Thanks for checking out Textly! ❤️
Works on your phone as well, or?
@dominikmeszaros Not at the moment. Textly is currently available only for Mac, but we do have plans to bring it to iPhone in the future!
The table capture is the part that caught my eye — most screenshot OCR tools flatten everything into a paragraph, so keeping rows and columns intact is the hard bit. How does it handle merged cells, or cells with line breaks inside them? That's usually where these tools fall apart for me when I'm pulling data out of PDFs.
@jcbuilds Textly preserves line breaks within cells and supports multiple export formats, including CSV, TSV, Markdown, HTML, and Rich Table. Merged cells can be a bit trickier, especially in complex table layouts, and we're continuing to improve how Textly handles them. Appreciate you bringing this up!
Does the table capture keep amounts like (45.00) as they are, or turn them into -45.00? That's usually what breaks when I paste a bank statement table into a sheet.
@convertqbo Textly preserves amounts like (45.00) exactly as they appear, without converting them to -45.00. Feel free to try Textly’s free trial with your own content. I’d love to hear your feedback!