Open-source macOS clipboard Buffer adds on-device OCR to make image text searchable
tom_doerr · x · 2026-08-14
Buffer is an open-source clipboard manager for macOS focused on being lightweight and private, with 400 GitHub stars.
- Ultra-lightweight: 2 MB install, minimal RAM/CPU usage
- Fully local: everything stays on your Mac — no cloud, no tracking
- Text + images + OCR: extracts searchable text from screenshots and memes using on-device Vision
- Developer-friendly: handles large text snippets, JSON payloads and logs with lazy, chunked previews and disk-backed storage
- Supports pins, smart history and a quick ⇧⌘V shortcut
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