Cheese! OCR

Select any screen area, get text instantly

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What it does

Cheese! OCR is a lightweight macOS menu bar app that extracts text from anything on your screen. Press a hotkey, select an area, and the text is recognized and copied to your clipboard — all in under a second. - 100% on-device OCR powered by Apple Vision — no data ever leaves your Mac - Supports English, Chinese, Japanese & Korean - Auto-copy to clipboard, zero extra steps - OCR history with search - No internet required, zero data collection

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