Version1.0.6
Revision6
Size43.2 MB
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later
Confinementstrict
Basecore26

Copy text from anything on your screen

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Kingfisher reads the text in anything you can see: a video, a photo, a scanned PDF, an error message. Select an area of the screen and the text is on your clipboard, ready to paste.

The text is read on your computer, without an internet connection, so private documents never leave it. Kingfisher is free and open source.

- Precise area selection on any monitor
- Read the whole screen, image files and images on the clipboard
- QR codes and barcodes
- Open links, email addresses and phone numbers with one click
- Keep the original layout or join wrapped lines into paragraphs
- History of your last 20 results, saved as text only
- Top-bar icon, and a keyboard shortcut you can add in Settings
- English and 20 other languages included, among them Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Russian and Spanish
- Light and dark styles

Update History

1.0.5 (5) → 1.0.6 (6)
14 Nov 2026, 07:15 UTC
1.0.4 (4) → 1.0.5 (5)
13 Nov 2026, 10:15 UTC
1.0.2 (2) → 1.0.4 (4)
13 Nov 2026, 08:15 UTC
1.0.1 (1) → 1.0.2 (2)
13 Nov 2026, 07:00 UTC
1.0.1 (1)
11 Nov 2026, 06:00 UTC

Published11 Nov 2026, 05:24 UTC

Last updated14 Nov 2026, 07:08 UTC

First seen11 Nov 2026, 06:00 UTC