Cheese! OCR — Fast, Private OCR for Mac

Features

Everything you need, nothing you don't.

Press a hotkey, select an area, and get text instantly. It's that simple.

All OCR runs on-device using Apple Vision. No network requests, no data collection.

Recognizes English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text out of the box.

Recognized text is copied to your clipboard automatically, ready to paste.

Built with native macOS frameworks. Tiny footprint, blazing-fast recognition.

Browse and search your past OCR results. Never lose captured text again.

Three steps. Zero friction.

Trigger a screen capture with your custom keyboard shortcut.

Click and drag to select the region containing text.

Recognized text is instantly copied to your clipboard.