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Products that do what PixelRead AI OCR does

Capture, translate, and understand any text on your Mac

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ocrX Image to Text▲125
Scan and extract text from images on iPhone, iPad & Mac
2024
2
Text Capture▲96
Simple & convenient OCR tool for macOS
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3
Marley▲100
Convert image to text and hear it read to you with AI.
2017
4
Snipit - Ultimate OCR app for Mac▲131
Effortless image to text conversion for Mac
2024
5
ScreenTranslate▲90
Translate any on-screen text with a simple drag
Mar 2026
6
TranslateAir▲155
Instant AI-Powered translation for macOS
2025
7
MiniAi▲85
Select text, hit (⌥ space), get AI explanations
Apr 2026
8
OwlOCR 4.0▲261
Near instant text recognition for Mac!
2020
9
Translate PRO▲84
Copy any text twice. Get instant translation on your Mac.
Mar 2026
10
AI Photo▲201
Run Stable Diffusion offline on macOS and iOS
2023
11
PDFify▲230
Free macOS text recognition, PDF composition & compression
2018
12
OCR Scanner▲91
Extract and translate text from image
2021
13
Taped.ai▲159
Transcribe and summarize audio, images into clear text
2024
14
Bubble Translate 3▲75
A mac menu bar app for translating
2019
15
Text to Image by Photoleap▲228
AI powered Text to Image, turn words into art on your phone
2022
16IW
I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen▲321
2021 · github.com
17
Shift▲126
A Desktop MacOS AI app that edits text and code on the spot
2025
18
MacWhisper▲123
High quality text transcription with OpenAI's whisper on Mac
2023
19
Easydict▲143
Translate any text & image in an elegant macOS app
2024
20
Text to Image Editor▲171
'Photoshop' using only text
2022
21
Textify▲202
macOS app to recognize text from your images/docs with OCR
2020
22
ClipboardAI▲122
Instantly run AI prompts with shortcuts, anywhere.
Nov 2025
23
Grain Desktop Capture▲141
AI meeting notes without bots
Oct 2025
24
TextGenieAI▲109
Assistive writing enhancement tool for macos using selection
2025

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