Snap a whiteboard, a handwritten note, or another screen. ZapCopy reads it and sends the text right where you need it.
A vertical scroll-driven teleport: an iPhone snaps the photo, the photo falls through ZapCopy's bolt, the extracted text emerges below, and finally lands in your favorite apps. Scroll to drive it; scroll up to reverse.
Open ZapCopy, frame the page, take the shot. One tap, no setup.
Your photo drops into ZapCopy's pipeline. Text recognition, layout, language, all in seconds.
The extracted text emerges, ready to copy or share. Layout preserved, formatting intact.
From a photo to ChatGPT, Cursor, or your teammate's inbox - in a single tap. No retyping. No emailing yourself. No thumb drives.
When copy-paste isn't an option, ZapCopy is your answer.
You're working on a laptop that can't reach the internet. Maybe it's an air-gapped machine, maybe you're somewhere with no Wi-Fi, or maybe you just want to send code from one device to another without the email-yourself-the-photo dance. ZapCopy bridges the gap.
Got a notebook full of ideas, a grocery list on a whiteboard, or meeting notes on paper? Turn physical writing into digital text you can actually use.
Whether it's a printed document, a product label, or text on another screen, if you can see it, ZapCopy can read it.
Just the shortest path from a photo to clean text you can paste anywhere.
The handoffs, formats, and integrations that turn a photo into something you can actually paste, search, and edit.
Capture text from multiple photos and combine them into a single, organized document.
Photographing a multi-page document? A whiteboard covered in notes? With Multi-Shot Capture you can take several photos in one session and ZapCopy will read every photo and merge the text into one clean output.
Take multiple photos in one session without switching apps.
All extracted text is combined and organized automatically.
Send the combined text anywhere: Notes, ChatGPT, VS Code, or clipboard.
Point your camera at text on any screen or surface, and ZapCopy reads it frame by frame.
Need to capture text from a presentation, a scrolling terminal, or a video playing on another screen? Video text recognition analyzes each frame and extracts every piece of text it finds. No more pausing and screenshotting.
Specialized AI analyzes video frames to detect and extract all visible text.
Presentations, terminals, tutorials, whiteboards, even scrolling content.
Extracted text is cleaned and organized, ready to use immediately.
Why: ZapCopy lives where you work. VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Trae, VSCodium (anything on Open VSX), and Google Docs. Capture once on the phone, and text drops directly into the cursor.
How: install the companion in your editor of choice. Every QR your phone shows after a capture beams the extracted text in. No copy, no paste, no email-yourself-the-photo.
LiveInstall once, then any QR ZapCopy shows on your phone routes the extracted text right where you're typing.
LiveSame companion, shipped to the Open VSX registry - which is where Cursor, Windsurf, Trae, VSCodium, and anything that can't reach the Microsoft Marketplace pull their extensions from.
LiveThe Workspace Marketplace add-on rounds out the loop - physical-world text into Docs without a single keystroke.
One-time setup on each computer where you want text to land. Install the matching extension, sign in once, and every QR your phone shows after a ZapCopy capture sends the extracted text directly into that editor. No copy, no paste, no AirDrop dance.
⇧⌘X).zapcopy in the marketplace search bar.zapcopy.
zapcopy. Cursor and Windsurf both pull from Open VSX by default, so the result is the same listing as on the registry page.https://open-vsx.org/vscode/gallery and search again.
zapcopy in the Workspace Marketplace and click Install.Tip: install on every computer you want to use as a destination. Home laptop, work laptop, a friend's machine for a quick copy. The phone is the source; the extension is what makes the destination "ready to receive."
Open the ZapCopy panel in your editor once. Every QR your phone shows after a capture beams the extracted text into that editor instantly.
Code stuck on another screen? Scan it and the text drops where your cursor is.
Same flow in Cursor, Windsurf, Trae, VSCodium — anything on Open VSX.
Long printed document → Google Docs in seconds, with formatting preserved.
"Scanned 40 pages of my grandmother's recipe cards in ten minutes. Cursive and all."
"I take photos of whiteboards after every standup. This replaced three apps for me."
"My secret weapon for feeding meeting notes straight into ChatGPT. Saves me hours a week."
"Finally a text-recognition app that doesn't make up words when it can't read my scribbles."
The shutter works offline - your photo is captured and queued. The actual text extraction needs a connection, because it runs on our secure cloud pipeline. We'll process your queue the moment you're back online.
100+ languages, including mixed-script documents. The packaging demo above has Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean on the same box and it comes back intact. Handwriting is supported in every major script we've tested.
Better than you'd expect, not magic. Clean cursive on ruled paper is near-perfect. Doctor's-signature scrawls are hit-and-miss - we flag low-confidence characters rather than invent them.
It's faster, cheaper per scan, and the output is structured text you can edit, search, diff, and reuse across every tool you own - not locked inside one chat thread. Plus it handles multi-page, multi-photo and video pans that chat interfaces choke on.
Yep - standard App Store subscription, cancel from your Apple ID subscriptions page. You keep access until the end of your paid period. No email, no dark patterns.