What’s new

Capture

• Press ⌃⇧T, drag a box over any text on screen, and the text is copied. You can change the shortcut in Settings.
• Works on videos, scanned PDFs, images, slides, screen shares and apps that don’t let you select text.
• Works on every connected display. Press Esc to cancel.

Text recognition

• Reads 28 languages with Apple Vision, on your Mac. Some languages need a newer version of macOS.
• Finds the language by itself, or uses the languages you choose.
• Keeps line breaks, quotes, dashes and accents as they are on screen.
• Optional: join words split across two lines, and keep indentation for code.
• Add your own words (names, product terms) to help recognition.

After a capture

• A short message shows how many words were copied, with Edit and Undo.
• Edit the text in a small window, copy it again, or have it read aloud.
• Translate the text with Apple Translation, on your Mac (macOS 15 or later). Each language downloads once, then works offline.
• Look Up a word in the dictionary built into macOS.
• Search the web opens a search in your browser with Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing or Ecosia (choose in Settings).
• Optional: always show the text before it is copied.

QR codes and barcodes

• Choose Read QR / Barcode from the menu bar, or set its own shortcut. Links can be opened from the message.

History

• Keeps your last 50 captures as text on your Mac, never as images. Search, copy again, look up, search the web, delete, or turn history off.

Setup and privacy

• A first-launch guide walks you through the Screen Recording permission.
• Open at login, sound on or off, and an app translated into the same 28 languages it reads.
• No internet access, no account, no tracking. Pictures of your selection are never saved. Your text leaves your Mac only when you click Search the web.