Shota

The problem

Text on a shared screen, a paused video or a scanned PDF can’t be selected, so it gets retyped by hand. Screenshots have the opposite problem: before you share one, you need to point at the right spot and hide what’s private. Shota does both from the menu bar: press ⇧⌘2 and drag, and the text is on your clipboard.

What it does

• Copy text from anything on screen, with or without line breaks, in English, Indonesian and the other languages macOS reads.
• Screenshots you can mark up, with arrows, boxes, numbered steps, blur for private details, and a frame in one click.
• Every kind of capture: an area, a window, the full screen, or a scrolling page stitched into one image.
• QR codes, translation and pins. Read QR codes, translate between English and Indonesian offline, and pin text or screenshots above every window.
• A private history. Every capture stays on your Mac, with no account and no server.