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PixelRead AI OCR

Launching today

Capture, translate, and understand any text on your Mac

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Capture, translate, and understand any text on your Mac

46 followers

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PixelRead turns any text on your Mac screen into something you can use. Select text directly or press ⌘⇧2 and draw a region over an image, video, PDF, website, or app. Then copy it, translate it on-device, listen with system voices, or use Apple Intelligence to summarize, rewrite, extract key details, and ask questions. OCR, translation, and AI processing stay on your Mac. Free for macOS 15.2+; Translate and AI features require macOS 26.

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Launch tags:Mac•Productivity•Artificial Intelligence

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PixelRead AI OCR

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I built PixelRead because text on screen is still too often trapped inside screenshots, videos, PDFs, and apps. Existing OCR utilities usually stop at copying. I wanted one fast Mac shortcut that could also translate, speak, summarize, rewrite, extract details, and answer questions—without sending captured text to a server. Press ⌘⇧2, drag over any region, and PixelRead turns those pixels into actionable text. What you can do: • Capture text from any app, image, video, PDF, or webpage • Copy selected text instantly • Translate on-device with automatic source detection on macOS 26 • Listen using language-aware system voices • Use Apple Intelligence to summarize, rewrite, extract key details, or ask focused questions • Keep OCR, translation, and AI processing on your Mac PixelRead is free and runs on macOS 15.2+. Translation and Apple Intelligence features require macOS 26 and supported hardware. I’d especially love feedback on the capture workflow and which text actions you use most. Thanks for taking a look!

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20h ago

"OCR, translation, and AI processing stay on your Mac" is the line that sold me - half the reason I never bothered with the built-in screenshot-to-text tools is not wanting random screen content going to a server. the actual use case I'd reach for most: pulling text out of error screenshots and stack traces that get dropped into Slack as images instead of text, so I can actually search or paste them somewhere useful. curious if extract-key-details handles messy monospace/terminal output as cleanly as regular text, since that's usually where OCR tools fall apart.

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43m ago

Congrats on the launch! Looks great, and would save a lot of time. The translation feature looks super useful too. Mainly would use OCR for converting text in images to text etc.

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5h ago

PixelRead AI OCR

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@silvia_odwyer1 thx mate! And the best everything is offline on your mac!

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5h ago