FastOCRChoose, drop, or capture
Open a picture, drop it on the window, read the clipboard, or drag out a region of the screen.
Text from images,on your Mac
FastOCR reads the text in a picture. Recognition stays on your Mac, and the image is never uploaded.
Download on the Mac App Store
Recognize, edit, and keep it local
Built for screenshots, scans, chats, and photos of notes.
Open from Finder
In Finder, use the Services menu and choose Open with FastOCR.
Edit the result
The text sits with the image. Change it, copy it, or save it as a text file.
Open from the menu bar
FastOCR lives in the menu bar. Click its icon to open the window, or start an OCR right from the menu.
OCR in many languages
Recognize Simplified and Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, and dozens more, including German, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, and Thai.
Private by default
Images and results stay in the app’s local folder. Nothing is uploaded.