Picture to Text - ExtractText
Copy Text from Images & PDFs
Only for Mac
Free
Mac
Turn screenshots, photos and PDFs into editable text in seconds, right on your Mac. Press Shift-Command-2 to grab text from anywhere on your screen.
Picture to Text turns images, screenshots and PDFs into clean, editable text in seconds — and everything happens on your Mac.
Drop in a photo of a document, paste a screenshot, or press Shift-Command-2 and drag over anything on your screen. The text appears instantly, ready to edit, copy or save.
FAST, ACCURATE, PRIVATE
• Powered by Apple’s on-device Vision text recognition
• No uploads, no accounts, no tracking — your images never leave your Mac
• Works offline
EVERY WAY TO ADD TEXT
• Drag and drop images or PDFs from Finder
• Paste images from the clipboard
• Choose several files at once and get all the text together
• Capture any area of your screen with Shift-Command-2 or from the menu bar
PDFs, PAGE BY PAGE
• Import multi-page PDFs, including scanned documents
• See each page as it’s read
• Pages are clearly labelled in the result
READ JUST WHAT YOU NEED
• Drag over part of an image to extract only that area
SMART TOOLS
• Detects links, email addresses, phone numbers, QR codes and barcodes — open or copy them with one click
• Clean Up: join broken lines, remove extra spaces, change letter case, and undo
• Translate the result on your Mac (macOS 26 or later)
• Word and character count
• Export as a .txt file
30+ LANGUAGES
English, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay, Dutch, Polish, Swedish and more — plus Urdu, Persian, Pashto, Sindhi and Punjabi in beta. Or let Automatic detect the language for you.
ALWAYS AT HAND
• Menu bar icon with your recent results
• Floating result window with a language picker and Copy Text
• Keyboard shortcuts, Light and Dark Mode, and VoiceOver labels
Screen Recording permission is used only for screen capture, and only the area you select is captured.
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The developer, Muhammad Shahid Khan, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Muhammad Shahid Khan
- Size
- 1.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- Copyright
- © 2026 Picture to Text