> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.getdax.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Image to Text

> Pull the text out of any image — a screenshot, a photo, a scan — and copy it to your clipboard.

**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.

## Open it

Press <kbd>⌃</kbd> <kbd>⌥</kbd> <kbd>R</kbd> from any app.

## How it works

<Steps>
  <Step title="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.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Press the shortcut">
    Press <kbd>⌃</kbd> <kbd>⌥</kbd> <kbd>R</kbd>. Dax reads the text in the
    image instantly — no waiting for a server.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Paste the text">
    The recognized text lands on your clipboard. Paste it wherever you need it.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Tip>
  **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.
</Tip>

## 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 — most things with legible text.

## Privacy

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