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MiniSnip

Meet MiniSnip, the smallest and fastest way to capture your screen and extract text with OCR on Windows. Open-source, feather-light, uses minimal resources, and stays completely out of your way.

Just one hotkey (Ctrl+Shift+C) is all you need to start.

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  • Windows
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  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused
  3.  Minimalistic

Features

  1.  Works Offline
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  Portable
  4.  No registration required
  5.  Support for Multiple Monitors
  6.  OCR
  7.  Dark Mode
  8.  No Tracking
  9.  Screenshot OCR

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Photos & Graphics, Office & Productivity

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  •  54 Stars
  •  4 Forks
  •  4 Open Issues
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MiniSnip was added to AlternativeTo by deminimis on and this page was last updated .

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TBayAreaPat
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Doesn't capture from system-type windows, so it is rather limiting. I currently use NormCap.

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What is MiniSnip?

Features Feather-light: The entire application is a single, tiny executable with no dependencies.

System Tray Native: Lives in your system tray, using almost zero RAM.

Modern Workflow: Use one hotkey (Ctrl+Shift+C) to snip first, then decide what to do.

Floating Action Toolbar: An instant, dark-mode toolbar appears after your snip with four actions:

Copy Image: Copies the captured image to your clipboard.

Save Image: Opens a dialog to save the image as a PNG.

Copy Text (OCR): Uses the built-in Windows OCR engine to extract all text from the image and copy it to your clipboard.

Save Text (OCR): Appends the extracted text to a single minisnip_OCR.txt file in your Downloads folder.

Zero Dependencies: The portable version runs on Windows without installation.

Zero Data Collection: Fully on-device. Nothing is ever sent over the network.