Extract text from anywhere on your screen (OCR). Perfect for capturing text from videos, PDFs, presentations, or any app where copying isn't possible.
Highlights
- Extract text from anywhere on your screen
- Scan QR codes and barcodes
- Works completely offline
- Global keyboard shortcut to activate capture
- Extract text from images on clipboard or files
- Drag and drop images onto menu bar icon to extract text
- Optionally shows captured text in a window with the ability to edit
- Enables doing multiple captures and copy as a single text
Supported languages
- English
- French
- Italian
- German
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- Chinese, Simplified
- Chinese, Traditional
- Cantonese, Simplified
- Cantonese, Traditional
- Korean
- Japanese
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Thai
- Vietnamese
- Arabic
- Arabic, Najdi
FAQ
How is this different from macOS Live Text?
Unlike Live Text which only works in supported apps with images, this app works everywhere on your screen - including videos, webpages, and apps where Live Text isn't available.
Can more languages be added?
No, language support is controlled by macOS because the app uses macOS's built-in text recognition engine.
More FAQs on the website.
Privacy
Everything is done locally on your device. Nothing leaves your device. The app is not even able to connect to the internet due to self-imposed restrictions that are enforced by macOS (no network entitlement).
