Supported Features
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Voice Control
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Dark Interface
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Differentiate Without Color Alone
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Sufficient Contrast
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Reduced Motion
Text Lens
Capture text from screen — OCR
Only for Mac
$6.00
Mac
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
And on macOS 26 and later:
- Turkish
- Indonesian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Malay
- Polish
- Romanian
- Swedish
■ 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).
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- Improved compatibility with macOS 26.
The developer, Sindre Sorhus, 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.
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Sindre Sorhus
- Size
- 8.6 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 15.4 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 15.4 or later.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Sindre Sorhus
