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Read the words under a region

A screenshot is pixels, but a web page also has text nodes. For a region capture, ScrollSnapshot reads the page text under the selected area and offers it beside the image.

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The browser has the source

The reader preserves document order and line structure. It can read the actual characters, including non-Latin scripts, without making an OCR guess. Hidden page elements are excluded because they were not visible in the capture.

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Use both outputs

  1. Capture a region that includes the words you need.
  2. Inspect the image and the text panel in the result page.
  3. Copy the text separately when an editable quote is more useful than pixels.