PixelScan
Copy text from anywhere on your Mac screen
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Some text refuses to be selected: a dialog, a video frame, a slide, or a virtual machine. Draw a region around it and PixelScan uses Apple Vision OCR to turn it into text you can copy. Recognition runs locally on your Mac, with no server involved. A focused Mac utility for the moments when text is visible but not selectable.
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PH · launched Oct 21, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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Yes A Mac utility that captures a screen region and runs Apple's built-in Vision OCR locally is a small, well-documented native app that a solo builder can vibe-code quickly.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #330 of 666 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 343 days after the earliest competitor.
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