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macOS and Windows. Your files stay on your computer.
macOS and Windows. Your files stay on your computer.
Get the words out of screenshots, photos of menus and signs, or scanned letters, as plain text you can paste anywhere. Run a whole batch and get one text file per image. The reading happens on your computer.
1 photo104 wordsReal result from the recording: English, txt file, ready to paste
Intel Mac or need help installing? All downloads
Hangar runs on Mac and Windows. Open this page there to download.
The real app with a real file, recorded on screen.
Where the AI runs
Copying text out of an image online means uploading the image. Hangar reads it on your computer.
Screenshots, photos and scans: JPG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF and more.
Tesseract runs inside Hangar. English is built in; other languages download once.
A plain text file ending in -text.txt, ready to paste anywhere.
Upload to a serverNot part of the path. Your file and the result never leave this computer.
Languages
Ready the moment you install.
Best for: English documents, from day one.
Add only the languages your documents use.
Best for: French, German, Spanish, Hindi, Japanese and the rest.
Recognition runs with Tesseract inside Hangar. Each language downloads once, is checked, and stays on this computer.
Hard cases
Recognition is only as good as the image.
In the run in the recording, it read 95% of the words in a photo correctly. Clear scans read best.
Even light and a straight page help. Shadows and steep angles cost words.
Not what this recognizer is built for. Expect gaps.
Check the ones that matter, such as amounts and reference numbers.
How it works
Screenshots, phone photos or scans. JPG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF and more work.
English is built in. Tick only the languages in your images; others download once.
Copy it from the results window, or open the .txt file saved for each image.
New to Hangar? How to run a tool, step by step
Choose the languages
Accents and special letters are read correctly only when their language is ticked. Tick just the ones you need: each extra language slows reading down.
Built in, ready the moment you install.
Best for most screenshots and documents.
A one-time download of about 3 to 15 MB.
Best for menus, letters and signs in French, German, Japanese and more.
Tick more than one for mixed text.
Best for bilingual labels and travel photos.
Every setting, explained in the Extract text guide Languages
The alternative
Live Text on a Mac and Snipping Tool on Windows read text from one image for free, right away. For a batch of images, you copy and paste each one by hand.
Who uses it
Pull the text out of a batch of screenshots instead of retyping it.
Read scanned letters into plain text you can paste into a reply or a spreadsheet.
Turn photos of slides and whiteboards into text you can search and edit.
One app, one payment
The same app converts, compresses, resizes and cleans up photos, and does the same kind of work for PDFs, video and audio. One payment covers every tool.
A typical routine
Crop each photo to the text you need, read it out to plain text, then give the files names you can find later.
Every tool is free for 3 days, with no account and no card. After that, Hangar is a one-time payment from $45, with updates for the version you buy. There is no subscription.
Yes, with Image to PDF, called Image OCR in the app. It makes a searchable PDF from each image and can save a .txt file too.
No. Chinese, Japanese and Korean are read when the text runs across the image, not in vertical columns.
Common formats including JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, and TIFF. Each is read and its text written to a plain .txt file.
37 languages. English is built in, and each of the others downloads the first time you choose it, then works offline.
No. The text is read on your own machine, so nothing is sent anywhere.
No. Your files are processed on your computer and never sent anywhere. Hangar sends anonymous usage counts to improve the app, never file names or contents, and you can turn that off in Settings.
Yes. A license works on any mix of Mac and Windows computers. Solo covers 1 computer, Crew 3 and Fleet 10.
Then pay once, from $45, for every tool and the updates for your version. No subscription. 30-day refund.See plans
Intel Mac or need help installing? All downloads
Hangar runs on Mac and Windows. Open this page there to download.