Selectext: Copy Text from Videos
Extension Actions
- Extension status: Featured
- Live on Store
Copy text directly from videos on Youtube and any site
Tired of typing out text trapped inside of videos? Selectext lets you easily copy on-screen text directly from any video.
Copy notes from lectures, code from tutorials, links from social media videos, or even handwritten text in seconds.
Selectext is designed to speed up your workflow without getting in the way. The video you are watching will be seamlessly enhanced with the ability to copy text - even in full screen. It’s the fastest way to grab the text you want without any unnecessary steps.
Join thousands of other Selectext users to save hours of time every day.
➤ How it works
Simply pause the video and click the Selectext toggle button that comes up in the top left corner. You can then select the text you want from the video and it will be automatically copied to your clipboard. Paste the text anywhere like your favourite note taking app or code editor.
➤ Extra tips
Use the keyboard shortcut instead of clicking the toggle and pausing the video to speed up the process even further - Alt+S on Windows or Option+S on Mac.
Selectext has a customisable menu that allows you to personalise the extension to suit your needs. You can change how the text is displayed, or change how the text is copied to the clipboard. Indentation mode for copying code will preserve the indentation of the code. This is important for programming languages such as Python.
➤ Supported languages and sites
Selectext uses the latest AI Computer Vision (OCR) technology to detect the text in the video.
It supports detecting text in 50+ languages including English, Hindi, Turkish, French, Spanish and many more.
Selectext works on all video sites including Youtube, Udemy, Coursera, Sharepoint, as well as social media sites and university / college lecture recordings.
➤ Need help?
Check out the tutorial at: https://selectext.app/tutorial
If Selectext isn't working on a video site you use, or if you want a feature to be added, reach out via [email protected].
Latest reviews
- Andrey Frankfurt
- it doesn't work
- Awadhesh Kumar Verma
- It's amazing, saves a lot of time.
- Mohsin Khan
- very useful, and works perfectly
- Hardik Garg
- NICE AND USEFUL ALOT
- Fady Shehata
- saves a lot of time while programming
- VVM Teja
- useful & working great
- M B
- No Good. Doesn't work. clicking on it does nothing except it just brings me to the intro video on the website.
- Gunjan Singla
- very good
- SRIRAM S
- really helpfull to use
- Har Har
- good
- Dhruv Vaidh
- Very Good Service, works well on all platforms, not just youtube
- Ali Mohamed Magdy QE
- NOT FREE, IT WILL TAKE CREDITS AFTER 20 SCREEN SHOTS
- Harsh Saraswat
- gud product just need a bit more optimization while selecting text
- Junior Moses
- came in clutch when i was coping code on YT would recommend
- MOHAMED HIJAS H
- Best Extension tool for Copy the text through Youtube
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- GREAT APP WORTH USING
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- ITS REALLY A GREAT AND USEFUL EXTENSION
- Jafar Khan
- works everytime it is so time saving and I love it.
- Rosine
- Easy to use and pretty useful. Nice extension!
- Kazama
- Great extension for copying the text from vids
- Fran Miller
- Extremely helpful, it makes the note taking process a thousand times quicker and easier!
- Ahad Rizwan
- It is hands down the best software to copy text from videos. best
- Shivasubramanian K
- The extension is lightweight and doesn't slow down browser performance.uselful for all.
- Sahiljeet Singh
- Overall a great tool but the limit of copying the specific no of words per month should be lifted up.
- HARSH
- best browser extension ever. no ads, no trials, no paid features. its totally free and works like a charm.
- Devasheesh Sharma
- Works well. I'm used to this. Great utility. Thanks to the developers.
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- Everton Santana
- if You don't use it yet, You REALLY don't know what You're losing...
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- Useful tool
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- Michael Yemane
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- awesome tool, has made studying a lot easier!
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- excellent app .does a great job with no mistakes ,helped me a lot.
- Hanuman Wange
- Excellent app, does what it is made for. No Ad's Only content.
- Axel Monticelli
- Quite useful
- Ludo Mazzu
- Context: copying code from YT video. Very simple and works great right now. Maybe not suitable for every case-scenario but I use it every day to copy-past code from my lessons without any major issues.
- Kishan Sharma
- good one
- Madhvik Kathiria
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- Arish Ali
- A really good and useful tool for looking up the meaning of words in a video without any typing, just select, copy and paste. It's really simple!
- Loren Calpe
- I'll give it 5 stars because it has been really helpful while coding for our capstone project.
- Francis Mbwana
- nice work