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CopyFish
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Free open-source browser extension that grabs and translates text from images, video and PDFs via OCR.
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VoiceAppear
✓ verifiedFree trial
System-wide dictation app for Windows and Mac that turns speech into typed text in any app with automatic correction.
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AI Video Summarizer
✓ verifiedFree
Free, no-signup tool that turns videos into summaries, transcripts, subtitles, chapters and mind maps in seconds.
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Pricing
No public pricing
Silver: $5.83/month billed annually
Gold: $24.92/month billed annually
Free trial available
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Core features
- ✦OCR of images, video and PDFs
- ✦Browser extension for Chrome, Edge and Firefox
- ✦Desktop screenshot text capture
- ✦Built-in translation
- ✦Open-source and free
- ✦System-wide dictation into any app via hotkey
- ✦Automatic punctuation and sentence correction
- ✦Filler word and stutter removal
- ✦Support for 90+ languages with mid-sentence switching
- ✦No storage of audio or transcripts after use
- ✦Claimed 99%+ transcription accuracy
- ✦Video-to-text with structured summaries
- ✦9 summary templates for different content types
- ✦Full transcripts, subtitles and clickable chapters
- ✦Mind-map generation from summaries
- ✦100+ languages, no signup, unlimited use
Use cases
- →Copying text from images or screenshots
- →Extracting text from videos or PDFs
- →Translating on-screen text
- →Capturing text from apps or games
- →Writers and professionals dictating text faster than typing
- →Developers dictating notes or messages hands-free
- →Multilingual users switching languages while dictating
- →Students taking notes via voice in any application
- →Summarize lectures, meetings and podcasts
- →Generate transcripts and subtitles for creators
- →Turn long videos into study notes and mind maps
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