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A closer look at each part of Unpixel: what it does, how to use it, and where its limits are.
- Features
FeaturesAppend mode: collect several captures, paste once
Hold ⇧ as you let go and Unpixel adds the text to what’s already on your clipboard. Gather passages from slides, PDFs and chats, then paste them in one go.
FeaturesAutomation with Shortcuts, Raycast and Alfred
Start Unpixel captures from Raycast, Alfred or Terminal, get the text back in Shortcuts with x-callback-url, and read files from Finder’s Services menu.
FeaturesCapture Again: copy changing text from the same spot
Live captions, slides and game dialogue change in one place. Capture Again reads the area of your last selection again with ⇧⌘1, no dragging, on your Mac.
FeaturesClean paragraphs or exact line breaks
Copy screen text as tidy paragraphs or line for line: Unpixel’s line break control rejoins split words, keeps lists as lists and reads columns in order.
FeaturesCopy text from anywhere on your screen
Press ⇧⌘2, drag over a paused video, a call, a scanned PDF or an error dialog, then paste the text. How Unpixel’s screen capture works and where it stops.
FeaturesLinks detected and filed for later
Grab a web address from a slide, video or shared screen without retyping: Unpixel spots a lone URL, copies it as a working link and keeps every one for later.
FeaturesMultilingual OCR: about 30 recognition languages
Unpixel reads about 30 languages on macOS 26, from Polish and Turkish to Japanese, Korean, Russian, Arabic and Thai. How detection works and which mode to use.
FeaturesOn-device OCR with Apple’s Vision
Unpixel reads text with Apple’s Vision framework on your Mac: nothing uploaded, works offline, Accurate or Fast mode, about 30 languages, tiles for small print.
FeaturesPrecise selection on any display
Unpixel’s crosshair dims the screen, shows the selection’s size as you drag, lets you hold Space to move it, and works on any display without capturing itself.
FeaturesPrivate by design: no account, no analytics
How Unpixel handles your screen: text is read on your Mac, captures never leave it, and only license and optional update checks go online. Plus how to check it.
FeaturesQR codes and barcodes on your screen
Read a QR code or barcode that’s on your Mac screen, from a PDF ticket to a code on a slide, without reaching for your phone. What it reads and what it copies.
FeaturesRead text from images, PDFs and the clipboard
Unpixel reads more than the screen: copied images, PNG, JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, GIF, BMP and WebP files, and PDFs of up to 50 pages, opened or dropped as one capture.
FeaturesSearchable capture history, kept on your Mac
Unpixel saves the text of each capture in a searchable history on your Mac. Filter by Text, Links or QR Codes, copy anything again, set a limit or turn it off.
FeaturesTables that paste as real cells
Stop splitting pasted columns by hand: Unpixel copies a table from anywhere on your screen as rows and columns, so it lands in a spreadsheet one value per cell.
FeaturesTranslate on capture: screen text in your language
Hold ⌥ as you let go of a selection and Unpixel copies the text in your language, translated on your Mac by Apple’s Translation framework. Tables stay tables.