Drag a box, ask anything
Capture once. Ask, follow up, ask again.
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Multi-turn vision chat
Open the palette and pick Capture & ask. Drag a box. The image lands pinned in the chat window, so you can keep asking until you have what you need.
Screenshot anything,ask anything
Drag a box on screen. Pin the image to a chat and follow up across turns. Or hit Extract text for plain text on your clipboard, from any app.
Drop a file, same flow
Phone screenshot, scanned doc, exported chart. Same plain text out.
Drop, extract, paste
Hand Khint a phone screenshot, scanned doc, or exported chart. The text comes back clean, on your clipboard.
Pair OCR with an Action
Capture, then pipe it into any Action.
OCR plus any Action
Capture, then pick from your Khint Actions: Summarize for ticket, Translate to French, Reply to email, or run a Chain end-to-end.
Common questions about screenshot to text on Mac
What's the best menu-bar OCR app for Mac?
Khint captures any region on screen via ⌘⇧K → Capture & ask. Pin the image to a chat for multi-turn follow-ups, or hit Extract text for plain text on your clipboard. Same paste path as Khint Actions, so OCR can feed straight into Translate, Summarize for ticket, or Reply to email.
How do I copy text from a screenshot on Mac?
Open the Khint palette with ⌘⇧K and pick Extract text. Drag a box around the region, and the OCR'd plain text lands on your clipboard, ready to paste anywhere. PNG, JPG, WebP, HEIC and more also work via the OCR tab's drop zone.
Is there a free menu-bar OCR for Mac?
Yes. Khint's free tier includes 5 OCR captures per day (up to 60/day on paid plans): a separate budget that doesn't count against the daily AI Action quota. Lives in your menu bar with the palette shortcut ⌘⇧K, works on macOS 13+.
What's the keyboard shortcut for OCR on Mac?
In Khint, OCR lives in the palette. Open it with ⌘⇧K and pick Capture & ask (multi-turn chat over the image) or Extract text (one-shot plain text). Drag a box on screen, get the result back. Works from any app.
In real work
Guided walkthroughs that run on this pillar, start to finish.