{"appstoreID":6743369285,"title":"Text Lens","subtitle":"Capture text from screen — OCR","developerName":"Sindre Sorhus","description":"Extract text from anywhere on your screen (OCR). Perfect for capturing text from videos, PDFs, presentations, or any app where copying isn't possible.\n\n\n■ Highlights\n\n- Extract text from anywhere on your screen\n- Scan QR codes and barcodes\n- Works completely offline\n- Global keyboard shortcut to activate capture\n- Extract text from images on clipboard or files\n- Drag and drop images onto menu bar icon to extract text\n- Preserves tables (as tab-separated values)\n- Optionally shows captured text in a window with the ability to edit\n\t- Enables doing multiple captures and copy as a single text\n\n\n■ Supported languages\n\n- English\n- French\n- Italian\n- German\n- Spanish\n- Portuguese\n- Chinese, Simplified\n- Chinese, Traditional\n- Cantonese, Simplified\n- Cantonese, Traditional\n- Korean\n- Japanese\n- Russian\n- Ukrainian\n- Thai\n- Vietnamese\n- Arabic\n- Arabic, Najdi\n- Turkish\n- Indonesian\n- Czech\n- Danish\n- Dutch\n- Norwegian Nynorsk\n- Norwegian Bokmål\n- Malay\n- Polish\n- Romanian\n- Swedish\n\n\n■ FAQ\n\n‣ How is this different from macOS Live Text?\n\nUnlike Live Text which only works in supported apps with images, this app works everywhere on your screen - including videos, webpages, and apps where Live Text isn't available.\n\n‣ Can more languages be added?\n\nNo, language support is controlled by macOS because the app uses macOS's built-in text recognition engine.\n\n\nMore FAQs on the website.\n\n\n■ Privacy\n\nEverything is done locally on your device. Nothing leaves your device. The app is not even able to connect to the internet due to self-imposed restrictions that are enforced by macOS (no network entitlement).","bundleID":"com.sindresorhus.Text-Lens","appiconURL":"https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/ea/27/5b/ea275b44-5ece-caac-6361-7d3756fadd36/Placeholder.mill/1024x1024w.webp","formattedPrice":"$6.00","appUpdated":"2026-09-15T16:22:06.000Z","appReleased":"2025-03-28T07:00:00.000Z","version":"1.3.4","platforms":["mac"],"minOS":{"mac":"Requires macOS 26.0 or later."},"topIAPs":[],"languages":["EN"],"size":"5 MB","category":"Productivity","developerWebsite":"https://sindresorhus.com/text-lens","screenshots":[{"platform":"mac","url":"https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/ed/e3/e1/ede3e168-212b-f052-658f-4de1c93cf39e/screenshot1.png/2880x1800w.webp"},{"platform":"mac","url":"https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/60/20/11/6020115f-ebc2-9e2b-203a-3c7eac622daf/screenshot2.png/2880x1800w.webp"}]}