OCR Apps

Turn images into usable text in seconds. Capture text from screenshots, PDFs, images, or even live camera input directly from your menu bar, with fast recognition, translation, annotation, and instant clipboard access.

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Collection: OCR Apps

Freemium apps

ScanTexter

This menu bar app not only pulls text from your screen but also automatically translates it.

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Collection: OCR Apps | Writing Apps

Free apps | Open Source

Easydict

This menu bar app lets you look up words or translate text. It can automatically detect the language of the input text, supports input translate, select translate, and OCR screenshot translate.

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Collection: OCR Apps | Writing Apps

Free apps

TextGrabber

TextGrabber uses OCR to capture text from anywhere on your screen, so you can copy it right away.

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Collection: OCR Apps

Free apps | Open Source

TRex

TRex lives in your menu bar and captures any text right into your Clipboard with magic of OCR. A free alternative for TextSniper.

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Collection: OCR Apps | Screen Capturing Apps

Freemium apps

Shottr

Shottr is a menu bar app with scrolling screenshots, text recognition (OCR), annotation (draw lines, arrows, and simple shapes) and measurement instruments.

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Collection: OCR Apps

Paid apps

LensOCR

LensOCR copies text you can’t select: draw a box around words in an image, a paused video or a scanned PDF, and paste them wherever you need. It can also translate what you capture, read it aloud, and decode QR codes and barcodes.

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Collection: OCR Apps

Freemium apps

OwlOCR

OwlOCR turns unselectable text on your screen, in images, and in PDFs into editable, searchable text. It uses Apple Vision OCR locally, with optional AI for messy screenshots, scans, and complex layouts.

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