# Lass0

> A menu-bar app for Mac, Windows and Linux. Drag a region like a screenshot and a model that runs on your device puts the text on your clipboard as plain text, rich text, Markdown or a layout rendering. It reads PDF, Word and PowerPoint files the same way, and can hide secrets and personal details before you paste. Nothing leaves your computer.

Lass0 is a desktop app (macOS, Windows, Linux) that copies text from any region of the screen. It runs entirely on the device: no hosted API, no uploads. Free plan: Plain text 100 a week, Rich text 10 a week, Markdown 10 a week, Visual layout 1 a week. It also reads PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Markdown, Plain text, Rich text files, and can clean text before it is copied: hide secrets, hide personal details, make it about any company, sound less like ai, reword. Pro: $6 a month or $48 a year, unlimited copies, copy from the timeline, multi-select copy, Collect sessions and the cleaners that rewrite text.

## Product
- [Home](https://www.lass0.com/): what it does and a real example
- [Download](https://www.lass0.com/download): installers for each OS
- [Pricing](https://www.lass0.com/pricing): Free and Pro
- [Privacy](https://www.lass0.com/privacy): every network call the app makes

## Docs
- [Getting started](https://www.lass0.com/docs/getting-started.md): Install, allow screen access, take your first capture.
- [The four formats](https://www.lass0.com/docs/formats.md): Plain text, rich text, Markdown and Visual layout, and what each one does with headings, lists and tables.
- [Shortcuts](https://www.lass0.com/docs/shortcuts.md): Default capture and Collect shortcuts, and how to change them.
- [Timeline](https://www.lass0.com/docs/timeline.md): Every capture, searchable, on your device.
- [Collect sessions](https://www.lass0.com/docs/collect.md): Capture several regions and copy them as one document (Pro).
- [Documents](https://www.lass0.com/docs/documents.md): Drop a PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Markdown, text or RTF file and copy its text in any format.
- [Cleaners](https://www.lass0.com/docs/cleaners.md): Hide secrets and personal details, or rewrite text, before it reaches your clipboard.
- [Free limits and Pro](https://www.lass0.com/docs/limits-and-pro.md): What the free plan allows each week and what Pro adds.
- [Permissions and troubleshooting](https://www.lass0.com/docs/permissions.md): Screen recording on macOS, Linux requirements and common messages.

## Guides
- [Copy text from an image](https://www.lass0.com/copy-text-from-image): Drag a box over any image on your screen and get the text on your clipboard as plain text, rich text, Markdown or a layout rendering. It runs on your device.
- [Screenshot to text, straight to your clipboard](https://www.lass0.com/screenshot-to-text): Skip the screenshot file. Drag over what you want to read and Lass0 puts the text on your clipboard. Works offline on Mac, Windows and Linux.
- [Copy text from anywhere on your screen](https://www.lass0.com/copy-text-from-screen): Some text cannot be selected: dialogs, remote desktops, apps, images. Lass0 reads any region of your screen and copies it as text, on your device.
- [Copy text from a screenshot](https://www.lass0.com/copy-text-from-screenshot): Got text trapped in a screenshot? Open it, drag over the words, and Lass0 copies them as plain text, Markdown or a table, on your device.
- [Copy text from a video](https://www.lass0.com/copy-text-from-video): Pause the video, drag over the slide or caption, and Lass0 copies the text. Works with lectures, screen recordings and streams, on your device.
- [Screen OCR for Mac](https://www.lass0.com/screen-ocr-mac): A menu bar screen OCR for macOS. Drag a region, get the text as plain text, rich text, Markdown or a layout rendering. Reads on-device with Apple Vision.
- [PDF to Markdown](https://www.lass0.com/pdf-to-markdown): Drop a PDF and copy it as Markdown with real headings, lists and pipe tables, even when a table runs over a page break. Runs on your device.
- [Copy text from a PDF](https://www.lass0.com/copy-text-from-pdf): Copy a PDF's text with paragraphs joined, lists and tables intact, as plain text, rich text, Markdown or a layout rendering. Scanned pages work too.
- [Anonymize text](https://www.lass0.com/anonymize-text): Hide names, emails, phone numbers, API keys and passwords before text reaches your clipboard, or swap your company's specifics for generic ones. On your device.

## Optional
- [Full text of the docs](https://www.lass0.com/llms-full.txt)