Extract Arabic text from an image on your Mac
You have a screenshot or photo with Arabic in it and you need the words out — not retyped by hand. Clipboard Doctor reads the Arabic (and English) inside images right on your Mac, so you can copy the text. No uploading your image to a website.
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On your Mac, not on a website
Search for “extract Arabic text from image” and almost every result is a site you upload your picture to. That means your image — a receipt, a document, a private chat — is sent to someone else's server. Clipboard Doctor does the opposite:
- Copy an image or take a screenshot with Arabic text in it.
- Clipboard Doctor runs on-device OCR (Apple's Vision framework) over it, recognizing Arabic and English.
- The recognized text becomes searchable and copyable — so you lift the Arabic straight out of the image. Nothing is uploaded, no account, no internet needed.
استخرج النص العربي من الصور على الماك
عندك لقطة شاشة أو صورة فيها نص عربي وتريد نسخه دون إعادة كتابته؟ كليبورد دكتور يقرأ النص العربي والإنجليزي داخل الصور مباشرةً على جهازك عبر التعرّف الضوئي على الحروف (Apple Vision)، فيصبح قابلاً للبحث والنسخ — بدون رفع الصورة إلى أي موقع، وبدون حساب، ويعمل دون إنترنت. مجاني.
Why not just an online Arabic OCR site?
Upload-a-file sites work for a one-off, but they send your image off your machine, often cap free conversions, and give you a single result you then have to keep track of. Clipboard Doctor is private by default and built for the way you actually work — every image you copy is processed automatically and kept, so the text is there when you need it later.
It's also a clipboard manager
Unlike one-shot converters, Clipboard Doctor remembers. Every screenshot and its extracted Arabic text stays in a deduplicated, searchable history with pinning, tags, snippets, and a global hotkey (⌃⇧W). Type an Arabic word and it finds the image you saw it in — even from days ago. Free, offline, no subscription.
Private by design
The OCR runs locally with Apple's Vision framework — no images or text are uploaded, no account, no tracking. See the privacy page for exactly what does and doesn't leave your Mac (almost nothing).
Questions
How do I extract Arabic text from an image on a Mac?
Copy the image or take a screenshot and Clipboard Doctor runs on-device OCR over it automatically, recognizing Arabic and English. The recognized text becomes selectable and searchable, so you can copy the Arabic out of the picture without retyping it. It all happens on your Mac — no website upload.
Does it work offline, without uploading my image?
Yes. Most Arabic OCR tools are websites you upload to. Clipboard Doctor uses Apple's built-in Vision framework locally, so the image and the extracted Arabic text never leave your device. No internet, no account, no telemetry.
Can it read a screenshot that has both Arabic and English in it?
Yes. The on-device Apple Vision OCR recognizes Arabic and English in the same image, so a bilingual screenshot — an Arabic document with English terms, an app with mixed-language labels, a chat that switches between the two — is read in one pass and both scripts become searchable. You don't pick a language first; copy the image and later search any word from it, in either script.
Is the Arabic OCR accurate with right-to-left text?
It uses Apple's Vision OCR, which handles Arabic script including right-to-left direction and connected letter forms. Clear printed Arabic in screenshots and photos reads well; heavy handwriting or very low-resolution images are harder, as with any OCR.
Is it free?
Yes, free with no account. Many Arabic OCR tools charge or cap free conversions; Clipboard Doctor's OCR is free and unlimited. It's a solo-developer tool under the rawag.xyz brand.
Does it keep a history of what I extracted?
Yes — unlike one-shot converters, Clipboard Doctor is a clipboard manager. Every image and its recognized Arabic text stays in a searchable history, so you can find an Arabic word from a screenshot you took days ago.
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