Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm excited to share **Grab Text**, a little Windows utility I've been building to solve a problem that kept annoying me. Sometimes you need to copy text from an error dialog, a video frame, a screenshot, or a PDF that won't let you select anything. Instead of retyping it manually, I wanted a simple shortcut that could grab text from anywhere on the screen. So I built Lens Text. 🔍 **What you can do with it:** - Press `Ctrl+Shift+X` and drag over any area to extract text. - **Multi-select:** collect snippets from different parts of the screen and copy them all together. - **Scroll mode:** gather text across a long, scrolling page without losing previously collected snippets. - Use a cascading OCR system with RapidOCR, Windows OCR, and Tesseract.js as fallbacks. The OCR itself was only part of the challenge. Getting selection coordinates right across high-DPI displays and multiple monitors, and preserving collected text across scrolls, took considerably more work than I initially expected. I built Lens Text with Electron, Node.js, and a persistent Python worker. It's my attempt to turn a small everyday annoyance into a useful desktop tool. 🚀 **I'd love your feedback!** What would you improve? Are there any text-extraction workflows or features you'd like to see added? Source code and Windows installer: https://github.com/saurabhkushwa... Thanks for checking it out!

GrabText

Extract text from anywhere on your Windows screen

Extract text from anywhere on your Windows screen