# Kapt

Source: https://sonpiaz.com/projects/kapt

Captures, annotates and reads text out of macOS screenshots.

Status: Paused
Started: 2026-04
Updated: 2026-09-12
Tier: side

## The problem

Explaining a bug means taking a screenshot, drawing a box on it, and pulling out the error text so it can be pasted somewhere searchable. That is three tools on macOS, and the scrolling part does not exist at all.

## The approach

One menu bar app doing the whole loop: region, fullscreen or scrolling capture through ScreenCaptureKit, an annotation editor, and Vision framework OCR so the text in the image becomes text you can paste.

## Where it is now

Shipped at v1.0.0 in April 2026 and dormant since August. It does what it was built to do; nothing is planned.

## What happens if this works

None beyond its own use. This one exists because the workflow was annoying every day and a native app fixed it.

## Evidence

- [v1.0.0 shipped 2026-04-03, installable with brew install --cask sonpiaz/tap/kapt](https://github.com/sonpiaz/kapt/releases/tag/v1.0.0)
- n/a, personal tool, no telemetry and no revenue

## Links

- [repo](https://github.com/sonpiaz/kapt)