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cropPaste — region capture & image clipboard kit

Draw a rectangle on any page, capture it — strokes included — and paste it anywhere. With a self-hostable Mac↔device image-clipboard bridge.

A$24 · one-time payment · instant download

For Paper Pro, Paper Pro Move · tested on firmware 3.26.0.68

What it is

A region-capture tool the Paper Pro should have shipped with. Tap Capture region, draw a rectangle over any notebook or PDF page, and cropPaste clones the pixels — and the pen strokes inside them — onto the system clipboard. Paste into any other page as a native image item, move it, resize it, keep annotating.

The sync kit

The bundle also includes clip-image-sync: a shared image clipboard between your Mac and your tablet, in both directions. Copy a diagram on the Mac, paste it on the device; capture a sketch on the device, paste it on the Mac. Ships with the OpenResty/Lua server handler so you can self-host the relay end-to-end — no dependence on anyone's cloud, including mine.

How it works

Runs as an xovi extension inside xochitl — no binary patching of the system, no bank-flip risk. Pasted captures become first-class image items via xochitl's own factories, so documents stay fully compatible with sync and export.

Caveats

  • Requires xovi (free; install links in the README).
  • Version-pinned: tested on firmware 3.26.0.68. Firmware updates can move internal addresses; updates are provided on a best-effort basis.
  • The sync kit assumes you can run a small server (any OpenResty/nginx+Lua box) and a Mac; device-only cropPaste works without it.

what you get

  • cropPaste xovi extension (.so) with bundled qmldiff
  • clip-image-sync kit (server Lua, Mac scripts, device hooks)
  • Install README + firmware-pinning notes

license

Sold under a personal-use license: yours to use on your own devices, not to redistribute.

attribution

Built on xovi (MIT, installed separately on-device)