Universal Copy
Universal Copy is the fastest way to copy text on Android, even from the apps that won’t let you or inside images.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
Features
- OCR
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Recent activities
- justarandom added Universal Copy as alternative to Scan Now
- POX added Universal Copy as alternative to TextGrabber
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Office & ProductivityWhat is Universal Copy?
MAIN FEATURES
- Normal mode: copy text from any application such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Chrome, WhatsApp, Tumblr, News Republic, Snapchat...
- Scanner mode: copy text inside images (OCR technology). It currently works with Chinese, Devanagari (Hindi...), Japanese, Korean and Latin (English, Portuguese...) character sets.
- Smart detection of entities: addresses, emails, phone numbers, @, #... are automatically detected by Universal Copy.
- Copy-Paste in 1-tap: perform quick actions (translate, locate, share…) on the text you selected. This saves a lot of app switching.
- Scroll mode: select texts from multiple screens or apps to copy them all.
- Harvest mode: launch Harvest mode and capture all entities that you encounter while you navigate.
A FEW EXAMPLES WITH UNIVERSAL COPY
You can use Universal Copy to:
- copy Youtube comments (the app normally prevents you to)
- copy text that is inside an image
- copy all the text that appears on your screen
- copy all the text from multiple pages and apps (with scroll mode)
- extract an address inside a text message and open Google Maps to locate it in no time
- detect multiple hashtags on Instagram or Twitter and copy them all at the same time, even they are not originally next to one another
- extract all the accounts tagged in a post or comments
These are only a few examples, the possibilities with Universal Copy are limitless!
HOW TO USE IT?
- Go to the App / Picture / Document you want to copy text from
- Launch the Universal Copy mode from your notification bar or via a shortcut. Select Normal or Scanner mode.
- 🪄 The magic happens: Universal Copy smartly detects all text areas and extracts addresses, emails, phone numbers, @, #...
- Select the text(s) you want to copy or a quick action (translate, locate, share…), it’s done!
HOW TO SET IT UP?
- Download and install the app
- Activate the Universal Copy accessibility service (Settings > Accessibility). This service is required for the app to work properly.
- Universal Copy is ready, you can launch it anytime via: your notification drawer, a tile, a long press on a physical button of your phone
Note: The service can be deactivated automatically by your Android system, then you should enable the setting ‘let app run in background’ in Universal Copy and disable battery optimizer for Universal Copy. Unfortunately, this matter is out of our hands.