DOCUMENTATION

Modes

Cycle modes with TAB while the overlay is open, or set a default in Settings. Disabled modes are skipped.

The thirteen modes

AUTO

The default. Picks the most specific meaningful thing under the cursor, a URL beats the line it sits in, which beats the paragraph, which beats the image behind it.

TEXT

Promotes text. Point at a word, a line or a paragraph and copy it without dragging a rectangle. Works on text inside images and screenshots.

OBJECT

Cuts an object out along its own boundary and puts it on the clipboard as a transparent PNG. When the boundary is uncertain the outline goes dashed and a plain rectangular copy stays available.

IMAGE

Selects whole image regions, photographs, avatars, embedded screenshots, to copy or save.

LINK

Prioritises URLs and QR codes, including bare domains and links inside images.

CONTACT

Phone numbers, email addresses and postal addresses, normalised where that is unambiguous.

TABLE

Detects table structure by column alignment and copies it as tab-separated data you can paste into a spreadsheet.

ACT

Same recognition, but a click opens the action list instead of running the primary action. Useful when you want OPEN or MAP rather than COPY.

MOTION

Point at something moving, click to lock, and RPCTION follows it. Choose 2, 5 or 10 seconds, then export the region it travelled through (motion crop) or the entity isolated on transparency (extraction). Those are different operations and the interface never blurs them.

SOURCE

Point at code, in an editor, a screenshot, a slide, a video, and click. RPCTION reads it back into text, rebuilding indentation from where the characters sit on screen, and offers COPY or SAVE with an extension matching what the code actually is.

Every result states where it came from. SOURCE RECONSTRUCTED means it was rebuilt from pixels and may differ from the original file. SOURCE PARTIAL means some lines were read with low confidence. SOURCE UNAVAILABLE means there was nothing legitimate to read, which is what you get for a photograph, a UI screenshot, or anything that is not code. SOURCE AVAILABLE is reserved for a real source file and nothing produces it today.

RPCTION reads your screen. It does not attach to other applications, read a browser's internals, or fetch anything over the network, so private or unloaded code is out of reach and RPCTION says so rather than guessing.

AUDIO

Captures the last few seconds of what your machine is playing. Cycle to AUDIO, pick 2, 5, 10 or 30 seconds with the arrow keys, and click. The clip is written as a .wav file and the confirmation says SAVED with the path, never COPIED, because Windows has no pasteable clipboard form for audio.

The rolling buffer only exists while AUDIO mode is open. Entering the mode allocates it, leaving releases it, and nothing is buffered at any other time. Windows mixes system audio before applications can see it, so this captures everything you are hearing rather than one application in isolation.