Screenshot OCR on Mac

Text in a screenshot is just pixels until something reads it. macOS ships Live Text, which handles the one-off case well and the every case not at all — because you have to remember to invoke it, on the right image, one image at a time.

This guide will cover Live Text and its limits, when OCR accuracy drops and what to do about it, and what changes when recognition runs automatically at capture time and feeds a searchable index.

Sealshot runs OCR on device — see AI features and Extract.

The full guide is being written. In the meantime the documentation above covers the same ground.