TextHeist

TextHeist

Press a hotkey. Draw a rectangle. Walk away with the text.

The macOS tool that copies text from places that refuse to be copied — PDFs that won't cooperate, screenshots full of text you can't highlight, videos and Zoom calls where copy-paste simply isn't on the menu.

Download for macOS Free 14-day trial · no account

100% on-device · macOS Sequoia & Tahoe · No account required

How it works

  1. 1

    One shortcut

    ⌘⇧2 (change it anytime).

  2. 2

    Familiar rectangle

    The same crosshair and magnifier loupe you already know.

  3. 3

    Floating editor appears

    Monospaced, instantly editable, with one-click extractors and smart highlights.

Rectangle that feels native

Optional magnifier, dimension labels, the whole Apple screenshot experience.

OCR that actually works

Dozens of languages, accurate mode, runs entirely on your Mac.

Extractors that think

IBAN (with built-in validation), Email, Phone, URL, Credit Card, MAC, UUID, IP — plus unlimited custom ones with regex and transformation rules.

History you control

Searchable, local-only, auto-deletes on your schedule.

Zero drama

Launch at login, multi-display, Retina, dark mode, VoiceOver — everything just works.

Stays on your Mac

Apple's on-device Vision framework. No accounts, no telemetry, no cloud — by design and by inspection.

Made in the Netherlands. We only sell software, never your data.

TextHeist is deliberately boring about privacy: it does nothing with your data because it never sees it. Vision OCR runs locally. No accounts, no cookies, no analytics, no third-party SDKs apart from a tiny hotkey recorder and a phone-number parser, both also fully on-device.

Read the privacy story

Because PDFs shouldn't get to keep your IBAN.