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Image to Text reads the text in any image using your Mac’s built-in recognition engine and copies it to your clipboard, ready to paste. Works fully offline. Nothing leaves your Mac.
Image to Text — extract text from any image

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Open it

Press ⌃ ⌥ R from any app.

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How it works

1

Grab an image

Copy an image to your clipboard (screenshot, photo, anything with text in it), or let Dax snip a region of your screen.
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Press the shortcut

Press ⌃ ⌥ R. Dax reads the text in the image instantly, no waiting for a server.
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Paste the text

The recognized text lands on your clipboard. Paste it wherever you need it.
Two ways to grab. By default, Image to Text reads whatever image is on your clipboard. In Settings → Tools → Image to Text, switch the source to Live Selection to draw a box on screen instead, handy for pulling text from a window without screenshotting first.

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What it can read

Anything Apple’s Vision framework can recognize: screenshots, photos of documents, handwriting, code in a terminal, text in a design mockup, receipts, signs, and most things with legible text.

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Dax Shots

Every image you hand to this tool is saved to ~/Pictures/Dax Shots/Image to Text, named the way macOS names screenshots, so you can always find the original.

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Privacy

Entirely local. The text recognition runs on your Mac’s neural engine; the image never leaves the machine.