Screen capture & OCR
Region snip is how you get anything visual — a problem statement, a diagram, a stack trace — in front of the assistant.
The region snip overlay: the screen dimmed with a bright selection rectangle drawn around a coding problem statement.
public/docs/capture/region-snip.pngThe two capture shortcuts
| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
| ⌘⌥G | Capture a region and attach it to your draft. Nothing is sent yet — useful when you want to attach two things, or add a typed note first. |
| ⌘⌥⇧G | Capture a region, attach it, and send immediately. The one you will use most. |
Why it does not give you away
The snip overlay is drawn by URHIRED AI over a frozen frame of your screen, not by the operating system's screenshot tool. That matters because the OS tool changes your cursor into a crosshair — a visible change that appears in a screen share. This one does not touch your cursor.
OCR to clipboard
⌘⌥O captures a region, extracts the text, and puts it on your clipboard — handy for lifting a problem statement into an editor without retyping it.
- Windows — English works out of the box.
- macOS and Linux — install Tesseract (for example
brew install tesseract). - For other languages, install the matching Tesseract language data or set
TESSERACT_CMD.
Managing captures
- ⌘⌥L — delete the most recent capture.
- ⌘⌥⇧V — append clipboard text to your draft.
- ⌘⌥R — reset the view: cancel in-flight requests and clear queues.
The draft input with two captured screenshot thumbnails attached below a typed follow-up question.
public/docs/capture/attached-draft.png