Capture, translate, and understand any text on your Mac
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.
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!
About PixelRead AI OCR on Product Hunt
“Capture, translate, and understand any text on your Mac”
PixelRead AI OCR launched on Product Hunt on August 21st, 2026 and earned 76 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #18 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
On the analytics side, PixelRead AI OCR competes within Mac, Productivity and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how PixelRead AI OCR performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted PixelRead AI OCR?
PixelRead AI OCR was hunted by Dimi Tarasowski. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Dimi Tarasowski