Textify

What is Textify?

Textify is a Mac utility for optical character recognition (OCR) that helps users turn images and PDF documents into editable, searchable text. It is designed for people who need to copy text from screenshots, scans, receipts, printed pages, or archived documents without retyping everything by hand. The app can recognize text in many languages, export plain text, and generate searchable PDFs with recognized text layered into the file. It also supports batch-style workflows from Finder, which is useful when processing multiple files at once. Textify is published by Isolid and is aimed at everyday document handling, study, office, and paperless organization tasks on macOS.

Key features

• Extract text from images and PDF documents
• Create searchable PDF files from scanned content
• Copy recognized text for use in other apps
• Export OCR results as plain text files
• Process multiple files more efficiently from Finder
• Work with multiple recognition languages

Safety overview

Status: Mostly safe

Textify is a normal document and OCR utility for macOS. Access to files you choose is expected for converting images and PDFs, and any imported document content may include sensitive personal or business information, so use it thoughtfully with confidential files. The app is described as working on device for OCR, which is a privacy-friendly design for this type of tool. If you no longer use it, removing the app will stop its OCR and searchable-PDF features but should not affect macOS itself.

Recommendation: Keep Textify if you use it to extract text from scans, screenshots, or PDFs. If you do not use OCR tools on your Mac, you can remove it without harming the system; just make sure you have saved any documents or exports you want to keep.

Common paths

• /Applications/Textify.app

Related apps

• QuickScan

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