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Snap.
Open ZapCopy, point your camera, tap the shutter. Single photo, multi-photo mosaic, or video pan — your call.
Handwriting, whiteboards, code, receipts, packaging — ZapCopy turns any photo into clean, paste-ready text. So the data in the world around you gets to ChatGPT, Claude, and your notes faster than you can type it.
A vertical scroll-driven teleport: an iPhone 17 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. OCR, 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.
Not a workflow. Not a tutorial. Just the shortest path from a photo to clean text you can paste anywhere.
ChatGPT
Claude
Notion
Gemini
Gmail
SlackEvery menu, whiteboard, meeting note, and packaging label is data your AI can’t see yet. ZapCopy hands it over, clean and paste-ready — so the physical world starts working for your models, not against them.
extracted.txtSome text is trapped where it shouldn't be — an air-gapped laptop, a printout, a whiteboard, a screen across the room. ZapCopy is the bridge.
You're working on a secure or offline laptop — no internet, no cloud copy-paste. Snap a photo of the screen with your phone and ZapCopy extracts the code, character-for-character, ready to paste into ChatGPT, Notion, or back into a connected machine.
That whiteboard from the standup? Snap it. Get clean text — bullets, indentation, and arrows preserved — straight into your notes app before someone wipes the board.
Curved labels, faded receipts, mixed languages. ZapCopy reads what your camera sees and hands you something you can search, paste, and actually use.
One credit per photo. Multi-photo and video use credits in proportion to length. Unused monthly credits roll over up to your plan cap.
1 credit = 1 photo scan. Cancel anytime from the App Store.
"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 an OCR 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.
Photos are sent to our OCR endpoint, processed, and dropped — we don't retain source images after the extraction returns. The extracted text lives in your app and (on Premium+) in your private cloud sync. Full details in our privacy policy.
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.